Very Smart Brothas
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Beyonce Is The New Black: The 10 Blackest Moments In Beyonce's "Formation" Video
In 2014, Surrey NanoSystems, a tech company in England, debuted VantaBlack — a substance they claim is the Blackest Black ever seen. “The coating reflects so little light, three dimensions seem to disappear.” said Ben Jensen, founder of Surrey NanoSystems, in an interview with the New York Times. “When you look at Vantablack on some wrinkled aluminum foil,…
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MUST LOVE BEARDS DC Day Party Ticket Giveaway
IDon’tDoClubs is returning to D.C. for another Must Love Beards party. It’ll take place Saturday, February 6th from 3pm to 8pm at The Park at Fourteenth. For women interested in Black men with beards, this is basically beard porn. It’s like the beard Spice Channel. And, if you’re a bearded brotha within a 50 mile radius…
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The Hip-Hop Dalmatians Are the Greatest Rap Group That Never Was. Probably. Maybe.
As far as late-’90s and early-2000s black cinema goes, Brown Sugar is probably my favorite movie. The Wood is as close a second as you can get, much in the way thatReasonable Doubt is my favorite Jay Z album but I can listen to The Blueprint all day every day. In fact, The Wood is…
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Underrated Moments In Black History: Angela Bassett Slaps A White Woman
Happy Black History Month everyone! I hope your edges are extra laid and your chicken extra crispy. More often than not, I find that Black History Month tends to turn into “explain standard historical references to white people who just never bothered to do their googles.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m learning things about Black…
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Why A Man Enjoying A Woman's Finger In His Butt Doesn't Make Him Gay (NTTAWWT), Explained
Who is Amber Rose? Ex-girlfriend of Kanye West, ex-wife of Wiz Khalifa, social media soul destroyer, and perhaps the most famous Cape Verdean alive today. Really? Yes, really. If we ever decided to honor and recognize a Cape Verdean-American history month, kids would be required to do Amber Rose book reports and school projects. She’d basically…
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Ask Agatha: Effective Online Dating Profiles And Proper Spades Reneging Etiquette
Robin from Brooklyn, NY asks: I’ve finally talked myself into signing up for online dating. There are lots of eligible men in NY but I don’t go out enough to meet any of them. Between my job and my lifestyle, I’ve decided this is the easiest way to go about meeting men. So now that…
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With Determining And Accepting Racial Identity, Do Biracial Men Have It "Easier" Than Biracial Women?
Full disclosure: I love Sage Steele. If you don’t know anything about sportsball, Ms. Steele is veteran journalist who came up in Indianapolis news scene and made her way all the way to the hallowed halls of Bristol, CT and ESPN. Even though I have long since stopped watching ESPN, partly because of there are…