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Two-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots and Kills His Mother. I Have Questions.
Yesterday, a two-year-old who was out shopping with his mother and some other children pulled a gun out of his mother’s purse then at near point-blank range, shot and killed her. This happened at a Wal-Mart in Hayden, Idaho. The mother, Veronica Rutledge, 29, was a killed almost instantly. Based on news reports, the boy…
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Meet The Police Chief Who Gets It. Let's Hope There Are More.
This year has been one hell of a roller coaster ride when it comes to law enforcement and the public perception of it. While it seems like many white people got to see a little bit of what Black folks have been screaming about for years, there are still those individuals who struggle with the…
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Happy Birthday, Damon!
Every year around this time, I do a search for Lebron James or Tiger Woods? And why do I do a search for either of these two folks? Well its because they share a birthday. And do you know who else they share a birthday with? Our very own Damon “The Champ” Young. I only know…
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Logic, Kendrick Lamar, and the Frustration of Derivative Artistry
At first listen, Logic’s major label debut album Under Pressure is brilliant. It’s listenable. It’s well-produced. He’s a very, very gifted lyricist. He even managed to weave his album together with a voice over reminiscent of one of my favorite albums of all time, A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders. But while I listened to…
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10 Thoughts I Had While Listening To D'Angelo and The Vanguard's "Black Messiah"
At midnight last night, D’Angelo dropped his third (!!!) album entitled Black Messiah. This album came with very little fanfare. It seems like in this new Beyoncé world we live in, artists who can just drop an album then do all the promotion for it via the album itself. D’Angelo is one of those artists…
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On Really Wanting To Like J. Cole More Than I Actually Do
I’ve never had more people ask me how I feel about an artist than I have about J. Cole. It’s interesting, really. Somehow, J. Cole is like a hip-hop Hatfields vs McCoy standoff. People either love or give no fucks about J. Cole. And the folks who love him stan so hard for him it…
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10 Possible Reasons Why Diddy May Have Hit Drake With a 3-Piece
In the grand scheme of things, there’s not much funnier in life than Drake getting punched by Diddy in Miami during Art Basel. For one, while I can see Puffy slappin’ everybody out here back in the 90s, he just seems a bit over that at this point in life, which is part of what makes…
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On Rolling Stone, Sexual Assault, The Facts, And The Bigger Picture
By now, most people are familiar with the unravelling of the Rolling Stone story penned by Sabrina Rubin Erdely that chronicles the alleged gang-rape of “Jackie” at the Phi Kappa Psi house on the University of Virginia’s campus back in 2012. The story touched off a lot of (much needed) discussion about sexual assault on…
