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People Still Sing & Dance for Chicken?

People Still Sing & Dance for Chicken?

Singing and dancing for chicken strips? In 2012?! Mary J. Blige, you’re better than this! Have we learned nothing from the poor endorsement choices of MC Hammer? As “PROPER!” as that popcorn chicken may have tasted to poor Hammer, that was officially the point where his career began to die. I doubt this Burger King [...]

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Reverse Racism Does Not Exist

Racial issues have been in the news a lot lately. As a black man, albeit a high-yellow one, I feel it is my duty to enlighten the masses on one particular fact: Black people cannot be racist. Some black folks are definitely prejudiced. Some are hateful. I definitely know a bunch of ignorant ones. All of [...]

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Officially THE Worst Black History Month Since The Middle Passage

Officially THE Worst Black History Month Since The Middle Passage

We lost Don Cornelius, Whitney Houston, and now THIS?! As wrong yet hilarious as this this Photoshop image is, think about what I typed for a second: This Black History Month has seen the loss of quite possibly the greatest female vocalist of our time as well as the man who INVENTED the Soul Train [...]

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Baratunde Thurston’s How To Be Black Book Signing

Monday evening, I stopped by the National Press Club to attend the book signing for How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston. I am compelled to write about that evening for a number of reasons, but I will narrow them down to the top three and list them below: This book is very entertaining, and [...]

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Damn Sams

Sams from Lean On Me got arrested for drugs in real life. Looks like SOMEONE should have been listening to the speech Joe Clark gave on the rooftop! I’m not gonna make too many jokes about the actor who later went on to play Steel from Juice, and later, co star in future BET Blackbuster [...]

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Slavery The Game

I just saw a promo clip for Slavery the Game courtesy of Luvvie. Whether this is real or not, the fact that a game like this could actually be produced in this day and age is truly disappointing. It probably be financially disastrous for the company developing it, but still, I would not be surprised [...]

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So Where Are You From?

Whenever someone asks me “Where are you from?” what they’re really asking is “What’s your ethnicity?” Apparently, I look like a little bit of everybody. In the past month alone, people have told me I looked Puerto Rican, Dominican, Ethiopian and Middle Eastern. The longer my hair is, the more racially ambiguous I become, it [...]

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