Very Smart Brothas
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10 Thoughts That Immediately Popped Into My Head While Watching Gone Girl
1. “Wait…what??” 2. “No!” 3. “Fuck no!” 4. ” I just…I can’t.” 5. “Are you fucking serious?” 6. “…………………..” 7. “This can’t be happening. I refuse to believe this is happening.” 8. “I need a shower. A long, cold, lonely shower. And a hug. And then another shower, but a hot one this time. And…
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Tinashe’s Aquarius, Is…Surprisingly Good
After a handful of friends insisted that I give Tinashe’s new album, Aquarius, a chance, I pressed play on Spotify while writing last night. I wanted to see what the fuck all the fuss was about. I hadn’t paid much attention to her, beyond her lead single, “2 On,” which I paid attention to solely…
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Still A Nigger In Paris
“I don’t want to raise my children in this country.” I’ve seen many iterations of that sentiment on social media, and I get it. As should anyone who pays any attention to the news and/or has personally experienced the permanent and occasionally paralyzing anxiety present when raising a little Black or Brown boy or girl…
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Why This Picture Of Joe Biden Counting Cash And Eating Ice Cream Is The Blackest Thing We've Ever Seen Today
1. Although Bill Clinton has been a honorary Black American so long that he’s basically honorary Black emeritus, Joe Biden is the one who truly deserves that honor. Because he’s been an outspoken advocate for civil rights. And because along from Huck from Scandal, he’s the only other White man to willingly serve under a…
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5 Interesting and Useful Facts I Learned From Hip-Hop
Between slanguage and actual facts, hip-hop saved my life. That isn’t true, nor does it make sense. But I’m being grandiose. And I’m a hot nigga. I’ve been that way since about a week ago. Also, I’ve learned that slang is still evolving. For instance, I’ve spent a considerable enough amount of my lifetime around…
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"Morning, Church. I've Been Fucking Everyone. Oh, And I Have AIDS." = Worst. Sermon. Ever.
We’ve been thinking all morning (actually for just like the last 10 minutes) of a sermon that could possibly be worse than the one Pastor Juan Demetrius McFarland recently gave Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, where he admitted that he… A) Was stealing from the church B) Getting high C) Sleeping with everyone D)…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 23. Thinkpieces
Whether they’re injecting facts to conversations (“Speaking of Obama’s speech on ISIS, did you know ‘Malia’ is a Hawaii name meaning ‘calm and peaceful’?”), providing obscure tidbits (“I know everyone loved Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but Jason Segel’s best role was in Bye Bye Benjamin”), using smart sounding words (“That trope harkens back to a deconstructionist narrative”) or…
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ELLE Magazine "Discovers" Timberland Trend; The Entire 1990s Says "Discover Deez"
Social media was all aflutter when ELLE Magazine’s (Blackity Black Black Black ya’ll) fashion editor, Danielle Prescod took it upon herself to take a ride in a Delorean and claim Timberlands as the new hot “IT” winter boot. Okay, there was no Delorean involved. But, it should’ve been. Because, um uh ruh… they been a…
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Our Dangerous Definition Of Manhood
While performing a couple of my daily tasks at EBONY this morning, I came across two extremely tragic news stories. The first was out of Detroit, where a 27-year-old mother of three was killed recently after rejecting a man’s advances in a bar. From My Fox Detroit A mass shooting killed one person and wounded…
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I'm Someone's Husband? Me? Really?
(Damon’s latest at EBONY on the word “husband” and how he doesn’t quite feel like one — or at least the movie version of one — yet) When I think of a husband, I think of a character Dennis Haysbert or Danny Glover or some other deep-voiced, barred chested man would play in a family…