Very Smart Brothas
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Phylicia Rashad Defends Bill Cosby, And That Sound You Hear Is Shit Hitting The Fan
If you ever wanted to know exactly how “shit hitting the fan” sounds, it’s the noise Black America’s making this morning as news that everyone’s single favorite person ever, Phylicia Rashad, has come out in defense of Bill Cosby, vehemently disputing the claims that her former co-star sexually assaulted 20-something women. Rashad said this was…
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The Cavs (Finally!) Traded Dion Waiters. I Am Ecstatic. Here's Why.
1. At the moment, Dion Waiters is not a very good NBA basketball player. This is a fact most who follow the NBA agree on. He is average to below average in pretty much every advanced metric you can name — advanced metrics were basically invented just to prove that players like Dion Waiters were…
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Roxane Gay Is Kind Of A Big Deal
The #NBRB book club (I’ll let you consult Google for the acronym’s meaning) uses Twitter to discuss books written by some of the best and brightest. A few months back, the club set its sights on Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist. I had the opportunity to interview Roxane for the inaugural “Kind of a Big Deal”…
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It Snowed in DC. Of Course, We Weren't Ready.
In snowed in DC this morning. It is important to note what time it snowed (about 5am) because if it had snowed last night or in the really wee hours of the morning then perhaps the mayhem that occurred wouldn’t be as terrible as it was. Mind you, it would still be mayhem, but instead…
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Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 503 Recap: Running Around Like Loose Chickens
Happy New Years, ladies and gents. Mona decided to give our weary spirits a week off from the trials and tribulations of the Young and the Couthless, but we have now returned – and fortunately for the rest of us, the cast of Love and Hip Hop NY have not adhered to the “New Year…
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Remembering Stuart Scott
I know I watched SportsCenter before Stuart Scott made his first appearance on the show 1993. I just don’t remember what it looked like or sounded like prior to him. This morning, as I was getting ready for work, I did what I always do and turned on ESPN to watch SportsCenter, but this time…
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Pittsburgh Police Chief Says "Racism Is Bad." Some Officers Get Offended. Chief Replies "Sorry Not Sorry"
To get a better context of the environment new Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay recently entered, it would be helpful to know each of the following things: 1. Out of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the country, the Pittsburgh metropolitan area is the 2nd Whitest. 2. There were 66 homicides in the city in…
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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…