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Group Dinners At Restaurants Are Never Fun, And We Need To Stop Having Them
Getting older seems to come with a fair amount of side effectsâincreased joint pain, indigestion, tooth sensitivity, general peevishness about being awake after 11 on a weeknight. Some of these are just general consequences of your body letting you know that you, too, are slowly decaying from years of treating it like Play-Doh. Others are just…
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How "Braids," Lupita Nyong'o's Vogue Short, Captures Peak Black Woman Awesomeness
Iâve taken great pains to avoid spending extensive amounts of time on Facebook. There are not enough crispy-chicken wraps in the world to help me bounce back from the deluge of unintentionally inaccurate Black history facts, passively racist status updates from college acquaintances, and awkward selfies from my uncleâs second ex-wife. I can even feel…
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The Mint App Is An Unreasonably Petty And Penny-Pinching Ho
New Yearsâ 2016 came around just a little under three months ago. And with it, yours truly had yet again created a set of seemingly attainable goals for the subsequent 365 days in an feeble attempt to become a fully actualized adult. Some of the list has been fairly simple to execute. For example, Iâve…
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Cardi B's New Mixtape…Isn't As Bad As You Thought It Would Be (It's Actually…Good)
I think itâs fair to say that my appreciation for consumption of entertainment of the avian element is quite well documented. My favorite celebrity couple is Camâron and Juju. Close second? Remy and Papoose. I have been known to hit the chickenhead and the toe-wop in the club in this year of our Lord, 2016.…
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Cheap-Ass Travel-Related Things I'm Just Too Damn Old To Continue Doing
Daylight Savings has run up and kicked all of our collective asses. Which means spring seems to finally be coming around the corner, and itâs time to rub what little coins I have together and start planning out my excursions for the rest of the year. Not only do I need the occasional respite from…
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Why I'm Over The Carefree Black Girl Label
The advent of the social media era has brought about a great many things â some good, some bad â and notably it has facilitated the emergence of safe and thriving spaces for underrepresented people of color, both men and women. Worldwide, communities of Back women have been able to stand in their glory and…
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I Just Can't Stop Eating Food That's Bad For Me (Because It's So Damn Good!)
On any given Sunday â or really, any day that ends with “y”â I have the consumption habits of a 13-year old boy. Iâm talking gigantic, carb-heavy meals that prominently feature either rice, cassava, or potatoes, and a a big ole chunk of meat that I can do away with with aplomb. Iâm the queen…
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An Ode To Ben Carson: Our Favorite Gifted-Handed Clusterfuck
Super Tuesday 2016 has come and gone. Barring a miraculous influx of cash from an itchy pocketed donor with literally no one else to give money to (in which case, I would like to point them toward my IRS bill because the Feds are absolutely not playing with me this year), we are more than likely…
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Underrated Moment In Black History: Redman Goes Peak Black On MTV Cribs
Over the past few weeks, we have examined underrated Blackness in multiple mediums â all unique, all bold, all transformative. That said, of all the instances discussed, none of them â not even Bobbyâs Doodie Bubbles â hold a candle to the unapologetic hood fabulousness that was Redmanâs episode of MTV Cribs. Let me set…
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Nine Thoughts On Rihanna's "Work" Vid From Someone Actually Qualified To Share Thoughts On It
A few weeks after the clusterfuck that was the Anti release (shout out the newly-unemployed Tidal team member who tripped and hit the big red button hours before he or she was supposed to), Rih Rih decided to bless us with some choice visuals for her first single âWorkâ and did not disappoint in delivering…
