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Lent 2021, Day 35: You may just have a problem with this post.
Put down your pitchforks and calm your Twitter fingers. Lil Nas X’s new music video is not a sign of the Apocalypse.
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Come Clean: Sometimes, I wish Black singers wouldn’t “sang”.
Just sing the song, Mother Hattie Mae.
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Some Sunday Stuff: January 26th.
So, um, as I’m typing this, I’m fighting back tears about the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna in a helicopter crash this morning. I’m heartbroken for his wife and…
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Come Clean: 90s Music Videos Had Me Wanting to Go to a Carnival. Or the Shore.
Jordon Knight gave it to us back in ’99- the baggy cargos, the long sleeve turtle kneck sweater, the racially-mixed back up dancers. Seriously, besides a love of belly shirts, glittery eye…
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Flashback Friday: Sam Cooke’s Crossover Pop Success and How It Made Change Come.
Sam Cooke (Image Source) Earlier this spring, when rapper Kendrick Lamar dropped his critically praised album, “DAMN”, it shot up to the top of the Billboard charts. Thing is, it wasn’t…
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The sophistication of “The Simpsons”.
(Complex) If you don’t know by now, I’m a huge fan of “The Simpsons”. The classic, early years AND the current episodes. I never stopped watching, even during that *very* rough period…
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Lent- Day 31: Still missing?
(Image via Buzzfeed; Evan Hurd Photography / Getty Images) Remember how I talked about the Missing Richard Simmons podcast last month? Well, it wrapped, and while it did make me think, it won’t…
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Lent- Day 23: The most hated woman in America.
Melissa Leo as Madalyn Murray O’Hair in Netflix’s “The Most Hated Woman in America”. (Image: Google) Over the weekend I watched Netflix’s new biopic “The Most Hated Woman in America” about…
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Lent- Day 20: Before Christ, no one is anonymous.
(Source) Today’s hotest video features Kanye West, but it’s most definitely not Yeezus approved. Before I continue, if you’re sick of me mentioning Mr. West so much during these Lenten…
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Lent- Day 19: What happens to hope deferred?
What a day. In between a trip to the bank and my weekly IVIG session, I hung out with a couple of friends discussing life, love and having babies. One friend…
