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Fresh Prince Characters Other Than Will, Ranked, From Least To Most Important

7. Little Nicky Like The Godfather III, my early aughts affinity for Von Dutch, and the entire state of Delaware, it’s better for everyone to just act as if Little Nicky never actually existed. 6. Ashley As an adult, I’ve come to realize that Ashley was much, much, much more important to me — a…

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Damon Young

Published

February 5, 2016
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Why Awards Like The Oscars Matter To Black Artists, Explained

Who is Janet Hubert? Janet Hubert is a veteran actress best known for her role as Vivian Banks on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” In season four of the show, Hubert was replaced by Daphne Maxwell Reid; an act that upset so many Black people that an professed affinity for the “First Aunt Viv” has become…

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Damon Young

Published

January 20, 2016
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Thank God The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Isn't Being Rebooted

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air may be my favorite television show of all time. Yes, I liked it even more than The Wire, Law & Order: SVU, and Unsolved Mysteries. I loved A Different World, and liked The Cosby Show Family Matters, but I was all about Fresh Prince. So when “news” broke that the…

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Panama Jackson

Published

August 19, 2015
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5 Unauthorized Behind The Scenes Movies I'd Like To See

On Monday night, Lifetime finally debuted their unauthorized Saved By The Bell story largely based on the tell-all book by Dustin Diamond who played Samuel “Screech” Powers on the show. Terrible casting aside (Zach was horribly miscast and AC Slater was just confusing) the movie was at least interesting. It showed some of the beefs…

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Panama Jackson

Published

September 1, 2014
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Ebola Patients Cured By New Serum…Which Means We're All Going To Die

Look, as optimistic as I want to be about this new treatment for Ebola, we’ve all seen enough post-apocalyptic horror movies to know how it starts: 1. A fucked up but manageable disease kills a bunch of humans. 2. We scramble to find a cure. 3. We find a cure that “works.” 4. Except the…

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VSB Staff

Published

August 4, 2014