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Yes, I did.

Do people still call Washington, D.C., Chocolate City? I’m asking for a friend and also because my people, my…

On Thursday evening, The Root, Very Smart Brothas and The Glow Up joined forces for a panel in Washington, D.C. The…

For the first time ever, The Root teamed up with Very Smart Brothas and The Glow Up for a panel event all about…

This video originally appeared on Dec. 19, 2017.

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I regret not attending an HBCU.

For the past two weeks, I’ve been recapping the latest episodes of Insecure. This week I’m going to do a little of…

In the time since I began writing this, Jay Cutler could’ve broken his right ring finger after punching a bag of Hot…

Hey, young world! Welcome to our new digs. You already knew that we were moving to a deluxe apartment in the sky. We…

Makes the list because I’ve never seen that before. And I’m 92 percent certain that shit has never happened before.…

It wasn’t until my fifth or sixth time in New York City as an adult that I realized why it always felt 10 degrees…

Queen Sugar, the Ava DuVernay-helmed television show on Auntie O’s OWN and based on the book by Natalie Baszile, is…

The talk is literally a talk many black parents have with their children to inform them of the dangers of “existing…

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True story: I’ve known the founders of VSB, aka the blog Very Smart Brothas, for a minute. They are my friends,…

Although Jordan Peele’s brilliant (and now record-breaking) Get Out inverts classic horror tropes and societal…

The Washington Post once described Very Smart Brothas as “the blackest thing that ever happened to the internet.…