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Watch: A ‘Very Smart Brotha’ Breaks Down Darth Becky and Being the Blackest Thing on the Internet Since Marvin Gaye’s ‘Thigh Meats’
The Washington Post once described Very Smart Brothas as “the blackest thing that ever happened to the internet. Period.” And aside from a photo of Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye playing basketball with their “thigh meats blaring,” Damon Young and Panama Jackson are just that. And, luckily for us, both of them have written for…
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Damon At The Schomburg In Harlem, VSB In NYC, And "WingChick"
Couple things going on in the VSB world that we wanted to let you all know about: 1. Tonight, Damon will be at The Schomburg Center in Harlem for a reading of The Meaning of Michelle, where he’ll be joined on stage by Veronica Chambers (the anthology’s editor), Rebecca Carroll, and Caroline Clark. We’ll read excerpts…
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VSB Relaunched Two Years Ago Today. It's Been A Ride.
While being on Facebook and still not understanding what Snapchat is used for might make me the old guy at the club, ye olde Facebook does have one function that serves to heal the world, and make it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race. Facebook’s memory function of days…
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VSB + Friends Podcast Ep. 1: Drake Is Not Dadsafe
It’s been a long time, we shouldn’t have left you. So we came back. Damon and I bring you the reboot of our old VSB Podcast, renamed VSB + Friends. Check out our first episode, currently available on SoundCloud (as we wait for the iTunes link to go up) where we talk about pitching to…
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Where The Hell Is Panama Jackson, Explained
Who is Panama Jackson? He’s the lightskint half of VSB. You may remember him from such luminary documentaries as “The Other Splash Brother” and “I Know You Hear Me Looking At You: A DC Gentrification Story”. Okay, well, where the hell has he been? As you can tell, he cares about DC’s gentrification problem, so…
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Why Draymond Green Is and Isn’t a Dirty Player, Explained
Who is Draymond Green? Draymond Green is a do-everything utility man for the Golden State Warriors; the engine that steams their machine; the straw that stirs their coffee; the detergent that sparkles their dishes. He is their heart and soul, their guts and grit, their … Are you just going to speak in sportswriting clichés?…
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Mainstream Digital Media Sites Are Apparently Struggling Right Now. VSB, However, Is Not.
There’s a couple ways to look at the recent spate of news on the difficulties multi-million dollar digital media companies — Buzzfeed, Mashable, Salon, and Gawker Media to name a few — are currently having. The most popular way, it seems, is to conclude that we’re reaching a bust period; that Facebook’s (and Google’s) ubiquity is so pervasive…
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Lessons In Blackness From Yale University's Black Solidarity Conference
(This will be long and yes, that is what she said. There’s a lot to unpack in these words. Grab a seat and come along for the ride. Also, keep in mind, I’m an HBCU graduate so my perspective is rooted in that fact. Perspective is everything.) This past weekend, Damon and I had the…
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DC: GRILLZ | Saturday, January 16 || Lit. District. | Tuesday, January 26th
GRILLZ | I LOVE MY HBCU! Saturday, January 16 | Liv Nightclub | DC Come thru and rep your HBCU (or your PWI, Devry, Everest College, Hillman, etc) at GRILLZ and turn up the ratchetry. GRILLZ takin over for the 99 into 2000…ish. All southern jams all night! $1 drinks from 10-11pm and FREE ENTRY…
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A Summary Of VSB's Very Good But Not Quite As Good As We Want It To Be Yet Year
Happy New Year and shit, everyone! If you’re reading this, you’ve made it to 2016 (congrats!) and you’ve decided, for whatever reason, to spend at least one second of this year reading VSB. So thanks for that. Since you’re here, I might as well let you know that 2015 was, by every measure, the best…