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  • 10 Things You Need To Know About The Black Barbershop

    1. Breaking up with a barber is the most traumatic break-up a Black man will ever experience. One, because barber relationships usually last much longer than the half-assed, Tinder-generated exchange of Netflix passwords and seminal fluids you people call “relationships.” But also because the usual break-up excuses — “It’s not you, it’s me” and “I’m…

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    Damon Young

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  • When Will They Stop Making These Boring-Ass Black People Who Obviously Hate Black People?

    There is literally nothing — not The Strain, not Dwight Howard playing basketball — more boring, more tedious, and more cliche than the Black person who spends much of their internet time talking shit about “Black people” collectively in a way that lets you know they either don’t actually know very many actual Black people or just…

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    Damon Young

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  • Things Your Bitch Ass Better Not Do At A Labor Day Cookout

    Labor Day is almost here. Which means the summer is officially over. Which sucks. Because it felt like we had three weeks of summer this year. Like, you remember how it took Meek Mill an entire month to write and release a wack diss track for Drake? That’s how long summer felt. The span of…

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    Damon Young

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  • How Come Nobody Cares About Boyz II Men Anymore?

    There was a time in my life when I absolutely hated Boyz II Men’s “End Of The Road”. Not because it isn’t a good song – it is – but because I couldn’t go ANYWHERE in 1992 without hearing this song. Drunk white people were singing it on benders. Black dudes were blasting it from…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • Roger Goodell Is A Turducken Of Shitty

    In one of the emails in Deadspin’s Funbag this week, someone brought up a wacky teacher who’d give students 95s on multiple choice tests if they got every answer wrong. Get one or two right, though, and you’d get your real grade. Obviously, the implied rationale is that if you’re able to intentionally get every answer wrong, you…

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    Damon Young

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  • Idris Elba Deserves To Be James Bond, Because They Both Have Fuckboy Tendencies

    Just the other day, some blowhard on the other side of the pond took it upon himself to state that Idris Elba shouldn’t play Bond because he’s too ‘street.’ Naturally, folks got ahold of the pull quote — I’m pretty sure Nicki clapped at him before handing back the mic — and he has promptly walked…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • 10 Surefire Ways To Catch The Black Man Of Your Dreams

    As many of you know, VSB started off as a place where Panama and I volunteered our tongue-in-cheek observations about dating, relationships, and sex. Our content has evolved since then, but I still occasionally get asked by people (and by “people” I mean “women at game nights”) to provide some dating and relationship-related insight, and most of it…

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    Damon Young

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  • Exclusive: A Leaked Email Exchange Between Kanye West And President Obama

    A few weeks ago, our sources were somehow able to find an email conversation between Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill. And then, a couple weeks later, one between Meek Mill and Drake. And then, those same sources found another email conversation, but between Drake and Serena Williams. We have great sources. Our sources are the shit. They outdid…

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    Damon Young

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  • If #BlackLivesMatter Is A Hate Group, So Are A Few Others

    In case you haven’t heard, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, that level-headed co-host of Fox & Friends and formerly of The View, suggested that the #BlackLivesMatter movement be classified as a hate group as video of protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota, used anti-police rhetoric loudly and proudly. This was in the wake of the recent, tragic shooting of a…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • DC: REMINISCE | SATURDAY, SEP 5 || VSB LIVE | SUNDAY, SEP 20

    reminisce | saturday, september 5 all 90s. hiphop. rnb. reggae. dj underdog & nick tha 1da free b4 11pm w/rsvp & open bar 930-1030 liv | 2001 11th street nw | dc rsvp: reminiscedc.eventbrite.com vsb live. sunday, sep 20 all the shenanigans we can muster will be mustered. vsb in yo’ face. location, details, and…

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    Panama Jackson

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