Megan Livingston
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Serious Question: Is Tamar Braxton An Icon?
Count me among that group whose eyes rolled heavenward at the sight of the blindingly coiffed Braxton family can-can line…
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NFL
Welcome To post-Post-Race America With Colin Kaepernick
You remember: Barack Obama won the presidency, everyone was feeling all bloated with hope and the images of the Civil…
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Kerry Washington, Scandal, Black Women and the Super-Mammy-Jezebel
I do not, nor did I ever, care who the mole was, at least not much. I was even a…
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NFL
Why The NFL Combine Conjures Slavery
The debate over the comparison between the NFL and chattel slavery has been chewed up, swallowed, regurgitated, spit out and…
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Long Live Queen Serena
They call her the ‘ Serena Slayer.’ Or at least they did, up until 19-year-old American tennis up-and-co
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NCAA
Catfishing: A Hustle We Can’t Believe In
As the internet universe explodes with both professional and amateur coverage of the Manti Te’o dead-girlfriend hoax, I find myself…
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All Of Dunham’s “Girls” Are White, And All The Blacks Are Men
Let me begin by saying that no, this is not another rant decrying Lena Dunham’s wickedly and awkwardly funny, newly…
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The KimYe Persecution Will Be Televised
The thing that makes the Kardashian name what it is in the subfield of reality television (and the super-field of…
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Rihanna: The Anti-Beyonce
Of all the words carelessly scribbled across Rihanna’s oddly neutralized nude body on the cover of her new album, several…
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