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Acknowledging Dark Skinned Black Male Privilege
The word āprivilegeā is so often used as a catch-all to describe preferential racial treatment that it loses its meaning. When something is used to describe everything, it tends not to describe anything. That said, although darker-skinned Black males donāt possess the type of privilege most commonly associated with certain social, political, and economic advantages…
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Dear Black People: It's Okay To Be Mad Selma Was Snubbed By The Academy
In the next month, you will hear, read, and possibly even talk about how Selma was largely shut out of this year’s Academy Awards. While the film was nominated for Best Picture ā a category that has nine nominees and makes you wonder if Selma was placed there just so we’d shut up about it…
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Sorority Sisters Was Canceled Because It's A Shitty, Stupid, And Boring-Ass Show…And That's It
The “trainwreck” metaphor is used soĀ often when discussing the appeal of certain reality television shows that it’s become cliche.Ā But, being cliche doesn’t make it untrue. There aren’t many other ways to encapsulate how something so seemingly unwatchable can become watchable. At their best, The Real Basketball Wives of Hip-Hop manages to pull this off. They…
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Kevin Garnett Does Not Want To Actually Fight. Because No One Wants To Actually Fight.
During the Rockets/Nets game last night, professionalĀ octogenarian Kevin Garnett and Dwight Howard got into an altercation. Both men pushed each other, Garnett headbutted and threw the ball at Howard, and Howard hit Garnett with a forearm. Now, what happened next depends on your interpretation of what happened next. And your interpretation of what happened next…
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This Time, Let's Not Stop Talking About Boko Haram
One of my duties for EBONY is to decide which of the day’s news stories will be published on the site. There’s only space for 10, so after sifting through the dozens of articles that populate my Facebook and Twitter feeds every morning and searching a dozen or so different news sites (The Washington Post,…
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President Obama Is Officially Trolling The Fuck Out Of Conservatives, Part 2
To reiterate, In the past two years, President Obama has effectivelyā¦ 1. Legalized gay marriage 2. Legalized marijuana 3. Given legal status to millions of illegal immigrants ā¦and, in Decemberā¦ 4. Basically made Cuba the 51st state And now he’s planning to make community college freeā¦for everyone. Which means he’s planning to provide a free…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 27. Unprotected Sex
Bougie Black People are known for many things. Selfies on bike trails. Coed kickball games. Groupon. Alcoholism. Day parties. Running for Congress. Pescetarianism. Tapered jeans. Delta fundraisers. Working for The Root. But while it’s true that BBP partake in many of these activities because they find them pleasurable and/or profitable, it’s also true that the…
