Very Smart Brothas
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Sample Literacy Test: Would You Have Been Able To Vote?
The movie Selma is coming to theaters in a few months and the cracker jack marketing team behind the movie decided to drop the bomb on the masses early. As part of the promo for the movie, they crafted a literacy test, complete wtih questions that were used to bar some Black folks from voting in…
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When Being Educated, Rich, and Privileged Doesn't Stop You From Being Black
I often joke with people that I didn’t know I was poor until I got to college. The reason I say this (we weren’t really poor) is because I remember, way back yonder in 1997 when I graced God’s land of Morehouse College, encountering Black folks who came from means. Not that my family was wanting for…
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NBPA Head Michele Roberts Is Not Fucking Around With Your Bitch Ass
When I first wrote about Michele Roberts, the D.C. lawyer named head of the National Basketball Players Association, I did not know much about her. But, you didn’t have to know much about her to assume that, as a Black woman elected head of a union comprised of several hundred millionaire alpha males, she’s a fucking bad-ass.…
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Yes, I'm Single. No, I Don't Need Your Dating Advice
We singles and marrieds with no kids (or not enough kids for your taste) are tired of the questions about why we’re still single or still childless. We’re tired of the assumptions. We’re tired of the unsolicited “advice.” Actually, let’s rewind. Let me not speak for anyone but myself. Let me explain to you why…
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108-Year-Old Richard Overton Drinks Whiskey, Smokes Cigars, And Fought Wars. Our Generation Aint Shit
108-year-old Richard Overton is America’s oldest living veteran. You forgot it was Veteran’s Day. 108-year-old Richard Overton lives in the same house he bought for $4,000 dollars after he returned from World War II. You rent a $2,000 a month shoebox that sits on top of a Qdoba. 108-year-old Richard Overton drinks whiskey everyday. You…
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Man Buys 99 iPhones To Propose; Girlfriend Says "iDon't"
We might as well get the obvious joke out of the way. My man has 99 iProblems and a bitch aint one. That felt good. Apparently, a dude decided to propose to his girlfriend on Singles Day so he could un-single himself. He came up with the bright idea to buy 99 iPhones and place them in the…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Ep. 9 Recap
Another day, another hour of my time Mona Scott-Young has taken from me that I can’t get back. The fact that I willingly hand it over is beside the point. This past Monday’s shenanigans involved the whole cast and crew and dare I say that there was a bit of common sense involved? I dared…
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#ThxBirthControl, Because Making Love Is Awesome. Making Babies?…Maybe Later
Sex! Who doesn’t like it? Disaffected TV housewife stereotypes with diminishing libidos? The castrati? Everyone else though? Everyone else is pretty into it. Way into it. Maybe “a little too into” considering Kim Kardashian’s entire career trajectory. But would we and our raging hormones, really have it any other way? This is why birth control…
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Woman With Ass Everyone Has Already Seen Takes Picture Of Ass Everyone Has Already Seen
It’s impossible to deny that Kimberly Noel Kardashian West has a nice ass. But now, in 2014, acknowledging the quality of Kimberly Noel Kardashian West’s ass is like acknowledging that bacon burgers usually include bacon. Pictures, video clips, and gifs of her ass are so ubiquitous, so pervasive that it’s turned the provocative mundane. Kimberly Noel…