Very Smart Brothas
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I’m Not Ashamed of Being Broke and You Shouldn’t Be Either
I am not ashamed of being broke. Broke people make the world go round. Broke people are the original recyclers, the pioneers of creative reuse, the inventors of the most delicious, innovative foods and the people who keep hope alive in this country. I would like to restore broke to its original glory like Fred…
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White House Calls for ESPN to Fire Jemele Hill for Telling the Truth About Y’all’s Triflin’-Ass President
During a press briefing this afternoon, sentient Mein Kampf audiobook Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested that ESPN should fire Jemele Hill for her recent tweets about Darth Cheeto, continuing the trend of people on the right declaring everyone else to be snowflakes and then melting like a snow cone in a dumpster fire whenever someone dares…
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10 Songs for Your Black-Ass Playlist for Days You’re Feeling Particularly Black
I love the movie Cool Runnings. Peace be the journey and all that jazz. I especially love the part where Doug E. Doug—playing the role of Sanka Coffie, the movie’s comic relief and spiritual center—says to other bobsledders on top of the hill, “I’m feeling very Olympic today!” I try to work that into lots…
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Serena Williams Debuts Photo of Daughter Who Will Beat Maria Sharapova in 16 Years Too
It hasn’t been a good couple of weeks for Darth Maria. Her memoir—the hilariously titled Unstoppable—has been roundly panned for Sharapova’s cluelessness and willingness to employ racially tinged language when reflecting on her one-sided rivalry with Serena Williams. Also, as many have articulated, naming her book Unstoppable when she’s best known for being stopped 18…
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Thug Charged With Shooting and Critically Injuring Homeless Man After He Asked Her to Move Her Porsche
I know that there are those who, after reading this headline and seeing the picture attached to this piece—a young and blond and smirking white woman’s mug shot—will consider the use of “thug” to be intentionally sensationalistic, a shameless troll wrapped in a paradox intended to elicit reaction. Of course, if you’re aware that white…
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I See You, Mona Scott-Young, Trying to Tend to Black Folks’ Health and Wellness. I See You, Boo
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of the Love & Hip Hop franchise on VH1. You see, I’m a person who is with the shits, and LHH is a program ’pacifically dedicated to being with the shits. In fact, most of my television watching could quite squarely fall into a box that’s called for…
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Maybe You Should Stop Calling Yourself an Alpha Male
In my experience, confessions are pretty fuckin’ useless. Never has being on the receiving end of a confession resulted in me feeling happy or relieved or satisfied. They’ve all been pretty inconvenient and/or bewildering, leaving me resentful of the party who voluntarily purged long-held secrets and then sighed a breath of relief. They’re about as…
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Thoughts on #EbonyOwes From a Man Who Owes His Career to Ebony
It was October 2011. I was in New York City for an Essence magazine photo shoot and feature on relationship bloggers—a collective that included Demetria Lucas (A Belle in Brooklyn), Jozen Cummings (Until I Get Married) and Anslem Samuel (Naked With Socks On). The shoot was at 5. I got downtown early so I could…
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Are You a Phone-Charger ‘Borrower’? Stop That Shit
There is a war going on outside from which no man is safe. Sure, you can run, but you can’t hide forever. It’s tearing families apart, and there’s no end in sight. It’s a war predicated upon the most important of household fixtures: the phone charger. My refrigerator is important. But as long as my…
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How Disney Movies (and the Like) Have Ruined Reality for Me
My car was stolen last week. That sucketh greatly. After getting over the initial (minimal) shock, my first thought was that I hope whoever stole the car burns it to a crisp so badly that it can never be recovered and my insurance carrier has to send me a check for the value of the…