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The NFL Will Play 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' Before All Week 1 Games. This Is A Very Bad Idea
Since the NFL recently discovered that most of its players are Black and that maybe racism is a thing, theyāve been doing shit. And thereās nothing worse than a formerly wrong motherfucker with a newfound desire to do right. For example, we all know former knuckleheads who find Jesus and then beat you over the…
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Did You Know Irregardless Is Officially a Word? Also, It ALWAYS HAS BEEN A REAL WORD. Fight Me, Bro
Aside from my personal mission to convince the planet that Mark Morrisonās āReturn of the Mackā is the greatest song of all time, the only other conversation I feel super passionately about is about the fluidity of language and my distaste for the disregard for so-called ānot real wordsā like āconversateā and āirregardless.ā (For the…
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Kanye's Spaceship Flies High: Kanye West Inking a Deal with Gap for Yeezy Gap Line Makes All of the (Dollars and) Sense to Me
Per the New York Times, Kanye West has inked a 10-year deal with Gap to create an iteration of his Yeezy branded clothing line for the retailer. And anybody who is (or has been a fan of Kanye) knows about his relationship with the store. Specifically because the entire first verse of classic record āSpaceshipāāit…
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Just Don't Forget That Black Pain Isn't All We Have
I donāt know exactly when I decided to stop writing about whiteness and focus purely on blackness. What I do know is that for the past few years I specifically made a decision to write about the celebration of blackness and black culture and whatever comes with it. No more writing about black trauma and…
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The 10 Blackest Shoes That I Own
While I wouldnāt necessarily call myself a sneakerheadāperhaps thatās some sort of reluctant denial; my wife is absolutely tired of my sneaker deliveriesāI spend more than a little bit of time perusing sneaker websites and videos from people named Foamer Simpson, Jacques Slade and Seth Fowler, watching sneaker unboxing videos of shoes that I try…
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An Interview with My 11-Year-Old My Daughter, Who Has Been Out of School Since Super Bowl Sunday
For many of us, 2020 has been a year weād prefer to fast forward through. From losing Kobe and Gianna Bryant in late January to the onset of the coronavirus that has brought much of our normal lives to a halt, most of us in this country (and across the globe) have had to make…
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The Way My Kids Are Eating Snacks at Home, I'm Starting to Wonder If They Were Starving at School
I have a curiosity that Iāve been pondering since schools shuttered and our kids have been home around the clock: were my kids starving at school? I think my parents will probably feel me on this one right here. If you are a parent and find yourself so compelled to throw your hands in the…
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That Awkward Moment When You're The Only One Who Shows Up to an IG Live
Iād wager that a lot of us are spending significantly more time on social media these days. I know my phoneāwhere I consume, probably, 80 percent of my social mediaāis always near which means Iām scrolling through news, sales, hot takes, Michael Jordan truther takes (truly a subgenre unto itself), fake news, unfriendable statements, art…
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I Think I've Been Using Retail Therapy to Break the "Stay-at-Home" Monotony and Didn't Realize It
I donāt remember exactly what date it was that a general, nationwide āstay your ass at homeā proclamation happened, but if memory serves correctly, it was sometime in mid-to-late March. According to school emails for two of my kids, their last day of in-building instruction was Friday, March 13th, which is amazing because it feels…
