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Zoe Kravitz and Genevieve JonesThe folks at The Fashion Bomb were so kind to put together a primer on how to be a proper socialite for aspiring socialite snobs. How sweet of them! Teaching you everything from having a proper “ladies who lunch” outfit to perfecting your most apathetic looks, the post is both hilarious
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Advice columnist Nia Orms attended the Memorial service for Michael Jackson Wednesday. Here is her first-hand account of the day’s event. By Nia Orms I didn’t know if I should go to Michael Jackson’s funeral. Even as I sat in traffic three blocks away from the Staples Center on Tuesday, I was hoping that my…
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By Vernon C. Mitchell, Jr. In the coming weeks, months, and years, there will be much speculation into just who Michael Jackson was. Already, media outlets scramble for any iota of information they can to report on his death and the subsequent legal battles over his children and estate. In this moment however, more attention…
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Methinks Luvvie didn’t care much for the BET Awards this year! By Luvvie Dear BET,Eff your ENTIRE life. You are DEAD to me. Deader than Sean Paul’s hairline. Deader than Arsenio Hall’s career. Deader than a crackhead’s dignity. I SPIT on you. I sworefo Queen Yawnce’s favorite lacefront hairhat that if you messed up the…
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In the first of the Pryor & Wilder Racial Rainbow chats, one of my female friends, aka “Wilder,” takes on the BET Awards with The Snob. “What the hell is this?” was all Wilder asked over and over and over again as we watched the BET Awards together. Naturally, she didn’t last the whole show,…
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Unless you’re doing it out of irony … no. Just. No. The Limits of Blackness is a semi-regular series which features tales about things that are too “black” for even the blackity blackest of black people. Past stories include: wearing traditional West African garb for a wedding, the term “boo” and celebrating Kwanzaa. Read the
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Michael Jackson was a phenomenal talent, beloved by many, who lived both a mercurial and Howard Hughes-esque existence. He made a ton of money. People were drawn to him to the point of absurdity. People would pay anything for a piece of him. This concerned his own church, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, so much that they…