Very Smart Brothas
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Check Out "Worth A Thousand" (A TIFFxInstagram Short From Tonja Renee Stidhum)
Along with being the homie and a VSB extended family member, Tonja Renee Stidhum (who you might know as “Cheekie”) is also a talented filmmaker. (And a full length mirror selfie taker!) Below is Worth A Thousand, her entry the TIFFxInstagram Shorts Festival, a new digital shorts competition which “invites aspiring and established filmmakers from…
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The Black Model's Reaction To The TODAY Show's Makeover From Hell Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
By now, I’m sure you’ve seen or at least heard about the footage of the TODAY Show’s makeover from Hell, where a Black model (Malyia McNaughton) had her beautiful curls turned into a bird’s nest by “beauty expert” Deepica Mutyala. A bird’s nest sitting on top of a streetlight on a windy-ass day. A bird’s nest…
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"Niggas In Paris" Are Still Niggers To Parisians
I have an older cousin named Halima. She lives in Nimes with her husband and five-year-old daughter, named Hikma, who is an avid Frozen enthusiast (called La Reines des Neiges in French) and Beyonce-in-training. For the most part, they live relatively peaceful middle-class existences. But every morning, Halima makes the trek from Nimes to Avignon…
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On Accepting And Acknowledging That America Is A Uniquely Dangerous Place For Black Women
The two most prominent stories on my collective (Facebook and Twitter) timelines yesterday involved the death of a Black woman. One (Korryn Gaines) was shot and killed by police officers during an alleged stand-off. Her five-year-old son was also shot. He is expected to survive. Another (Joyce Quaweay) was stripped naked, handcuffed to a bench,…
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Apparently Dashikis Are Popular In (Local) DC Now
When I got to Morehouse College in 1997, there were two groups of people on the yard whose geograhic residence was pretty easy to point out: Atlanta and Washington, DC. Atlanta was easy for me for obvious reasons, to the point where it was even fairly easy to distinguish between an East side dude and a…
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Donald Trump Eats Fried Chicken Like A Gotdamn Alien In A Human Skinsuit. Do Not Vote For This Daft Psychopath.
Look at that juicy, plump, and delectable fried chicken breast. Filled with white meat, delicious skin, and America’s finest hormones; ready to be devoured with hands and fingers and anxious teeth, how God intended it to be. And look at that daft motherfucker looming over top of it; his artificially tanned skin the tint of a…
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The Many Levels Of Peak Stupid In Bow Wow's "I'm Too Mixed To Relate To Civil Rights," Explained
Who is Bow Wow? Bow Wow is a grown-ass 29-year-old man who still refers to himself and answers to Bow Wow. You know how people say Frank Sinatra was a singer’s singer? Well, Bow Wow’s a millennial’s millennial. To his credit, he did change his name from Lil Bow Wow to Bow Wow a few years ago, right? He…