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Mahershala Ali's SAG Award Acceptance Speech Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
While y’all’s cousin Sage Steele was on Instagram lamenting that the airport protesters might cause some people to be a little late for their flights — ultimately reminding us all to never trust a Black person named after a spice — Mahershala Ali took his SAG award acceptance speech as an opportunity to provide the…
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Dear White People Who Write Things: People Who Voted For A Blatant Racist Are Fine With Racism (This Is Not Hard)
I’m going to keep this short, because I’ve written about this before. Twice actually in the past three months. Plus I’m in D.C. for the next day and it’s 5pm on a Friday and I’m going to find some drinks and some wings and some Black people soon. Mostly though I hoped that maybe by now…
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A Cheer For The New England Patriots Is A Cheer For Donald Trump
Sports fans usually don’t want to mix their politics and sports — well, White sports fans — but fans of the New England Patriots have no choice. From Tom Brady’s passive-aggressive endorsement of Trump to the very name of the organization, if the personal is, indeed, political, then Patriots fans need to come to terms…
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The New Edition Story: A Very Extraordinary Watch Party in DC | Thur, Jan 26th
The New Edition Story: A Very Extraordinary Watch Party Come out tomorrow night and join VSB and the Extraordinary Negroes (Alex Hardy + Jay Connor) to watch the last episode of the three-part series with some other folks at Johnny Pistolas in Washington, DC! There will be giveaways and shenanigans. PLUS, after the episode concludes,…
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Black Man Killed By Pittsburgh Police For "Owning A Home While Black"
I initially planned on writing something Monday about the death of Christopher Thompkins — a Pittsburgh man who was shot and killed by the police Sunday after a burglar entered his home — but hesitated because I wanted to get more facts about the case first. This hesitation was undoubtedly due to two factors: 1. A statement…
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Donald Trump Gives All The Fucks. This Is A Bad Thing.
Donald Trump is a scary, scary man. I can hear you saying “no shit” from my office in DC. From his cabinet picks – nearly all of whom are unqualified for their new jobs or in the case of Jeff Sessions, qualified on paper but good gotdamn – to the potential Supreme Court picks, we’re in…
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Bless Her Heart: Chrisette Michele's "No Political Genius" Is The Best/Worst Thing I've Ever Heard
I’ve spent the better part of the last week wondering why in the hell Chrisette Michele was singing at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Not because I don’t think she’ll engage in nonsense for a check – the girl was just touring for Love Jones: The Musical after all – but I simply can’t figure out where…
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America Is A Big-Ass Alternative Fact
The first time I lied on my dick was the summer between 5th and 6th grade, when realizing that lying about the dispossession of my virginity to impress veteran non-virgins and fellow rising sixth graders (and, more than likely, fellow liars) Aaron Ray and Anthony Allen was much easier than finding a willing partner to attempt to have sex…
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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…