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Damon Young
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Damon Young is a founder of VSB, and the author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker (Ecco/HarperCollins), which won the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor
The basketball team was so Black that it made the university Black by osmosis
This month makes 10 years from the weekend I drove from Pittsburgh to D.C. for a party to celebrate both the…
Yeah, I Can Watch This Clip of Daniel Kaluuya and His Famous Bruvs Celebrating His Oscar Win Forever
One of the everlasting values of Saturday Night Live is that it recreates a dynamic that really only exists one…
“Whoa” was a bulldozer of a track—a concussive and relentless four minutes that felt like you’d just been injected…
The first 38 minutes of Hubert Davis’ introductory press conference as the new men’s basketball head coach at the…
While watching and admiring Lil Nas X’s mastery of Twitter over the past week, I’m reminded a bit of John Wick.…
Earlier this week, Panama Jackson refreshed and reshared a 2017 piece declaring Mark Morrison’s “Return of The Mack”…
I don’t have much to add here today that hasn’t already been said.
20 Questions after watching The Bachelor finale last night while the Nets and Knicks game was on commercial breaks:
So I was soft-hedging off my man because I knew that the ball-hander would be coming off the screen looking to pass,…
1. He reminds me of hotel shampoo so much that I’ve just started calling him Hotel Shampoo.
In anticipation of the upcoming Coming to America sequel, we decided to devote a week to some observations,…
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In anticipation of the upcoming Coming to America sequel, we decided to devote a week to some observations,…
Can you be attracted to your own beard? Not the face it covers. Just the beard. My face is fine, I guess. It’s a…
When watching any television show or movie depicting police officers, it’s not hard to see why this sort of copaganda
Has there ever been a man, real or fictional, as pathetic as Ted Cruz? That was not a rhetorical question. I’m…
So I’d never heard of the Bergdorf Goodman store until Pusha T made a reference to it in “Higher”—which, all things…