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America's Love Affair With Immoral And Mediocre-Ass White Men Will Be Its Downfall

If we are to believe Bill Maher — and, for the record, I don’t — booking pig anus found in the bottom of a package of chitlins with sentience Milo Yiannopoulos was an elaborate bit of subterfuge intended to shine a light on how repugnant Yiannopoulos’s views and actions are. From Dave Itzkoff’s interview with Maher in…

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Damon Young

Published

February 22, 2017
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Hi Everyone. I Had An Aortic Aneurysm Last Weekend, Which Is As Deadly And Fucking Scary As It Sounds

If you would have been on Centre Avenue in Pittsburgh this past Sunday afternoon at approximately 5pm, and just so happened to be on the stretch of Centre that runs from UPMC Shadyside to Patron Mexican Grill on the corner of Centre and Highland, you might have seen me driving past. And if you saw me,…

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Damon Young

Published

February 21, 2017
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"How To Get Away With Murder" Season Three, Episode 13 Recap: (“It's War”)

The big mystery of the third season’s second half continues in episode 13 as everyone tries to figure out who killed Wes… Wait, I started the last episode recap the exact same way. So much for uncharted territory here. Well, Annalise is out of jail now, so that’s new. Now that she’s out and rewigged,…

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Natalie Degraffinried

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February 21, 2017
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What I’ve Learned (And What I'm Learning) A Year After My Divorce

Seems that nearly everyone agrees that 2016 was a front-to-back wack-ass year for a lot of wack-ass reasons. For me, the year took a sharp-left shit-show turn in its very first seconds. Literally. During an otherwise wonderful New Year’s Eve wedding with my family in Detroit, my wife and I descended into the worst fight…

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Dustin J. Seibert

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February 20, 2017
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Dear White People Who Believe They're Victims Of Racial Oppression: You Are Wrong and You Are Dumb

Do y’all remember that time some Africans sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and found a bunch of people living on some continents and got friendly with them and then decided, “Oh, y’all cool but do you mind, we’re going to kill you now and steal your land. Ok thanks?” But then they were like, “well…

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Malaika Jabali

Published

February 16, 2017
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10 Most Ridiculous Parts About The Scene’s "Why Did You Cheat?" Video

By now, you’ve probably watched The Scene’s 6-minute plus video of former lovers turned exes, Kourtney and Leonard, who broke up, presumably, due to the Leonard’s (@LennyLoudPacks on the Twitters) rampant cheating. The girlfriend, Kourtney (@creolekourt) asks the hard questions, you know, “why?” “how many times?” and shares a story about walking in on him smackin’…

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Panama Jackson

Published

February 16, 2017
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I Don't Want The Obamas To Ever Come Back

It’s been a little over eight years since the night Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, and the memory of exactly how I saw it happen (on CNN, where the race was called as soon as California’s first polling results came in), where I was when seeing it (sitting on the couch…

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Damon Young

Published

February 15, 2017
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VSB Atlanta Meetup | 2.19.17 || Barack Obama Day + Black Media Discussion | 2.20.17 ||ATLANTA

What started out as me making a trip to Atlanta to speak to a journalism class at my alma mater, Morehouse College, which I’ve never had the honor to do before, has morphed into a full blown ATL roundup. Wrote a song about it; like to hear it? Here it goes. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017…

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Panama Jackson

Published

February 15, 2017
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Exclusive: A Leaked Email Exchange Between Nick Cannon And NBC Executives

Nick Cannon recently quit his cushy-appearing job as the host of America’s Got Talent after the execs at his home company, NBC, allegedly considered terminating his contract after he made some comments about being censored, to include statements such as, “But I can’t say that. I can’t talk like that. That would mess up the white…

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Panama Jackson

Published

February 14, 2017
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VSB Event: Black Voices In A New America | Atlanta | Monday, 2/20/17

Black Voices In A New America: A Convo About Black Media Spaces featuring Panama Jackson and David Dennis, Jr. Monday, February 20th, 2017 at 6pmAUC Woodruff Library – Exhibition Hall111 James P. Brawley Drive, SWAtlanta, GA 30314 Link for FREE PASSES: www.vsbblackvoices.eventbrite.com For the ATLiens in the room, (and brought to you by VSB and…

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Panama Jackson

Published

February 13, 2017