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Panama Jackson is the Senior Editor of Very Smart Brothas. He's pretty fly for a light guy. You can find him at your mama's mama's house drinking all her brown liquors.
One of the coolest parts of this entire journey with Very Smart Brothas is the sheer amount of cool people I’ve had…
“...so how you feel, frustrated, irritated, sometimes I don’t know myself, I be too numb, to feel something…
I love the internet. Along with allowing me to order shit off of Amazon and it be at my doorstep before I hit “Place…
On March 18, 2021, Mark Morrison’s “Return of The Mack” reached its 25th birthday. To commemorate this…
I have four children—a daughter and three boys. My daughter is 12 and the youngest boy is almost 6 months old. The…
Y’all really don’t talk about the movie Trippin’ enough. Released in 1999 and starring everybody’s favorite…
Ever since the SWV versus Xscape Verzuz was announced, my soul has been awash with joy and good tidings and cheer. I…
Up until last week, I had a very vague knowledge of Derrick Jaxn. I’d heard his name of course. He and a slew of…
Do you know what song you know but maybe don’t know that you know? I’m glad you asked: Creative Source’s “I’d Find…
One of the funnest things to do as a parent is to simply watch your kids. Over the course of every single day (and…
Last summer, in a never-ending attempt to find things for our kids to do that were as safe as possible and also as…
It’s been documented here before, but the onset of the coronavirus over a year ago seems to have turned everybody…
A few years ago, my family took a trip to Atlanta to celebrate my nephew’s graduation from college. We all stayed…
It’s been almost a week since Coming 2 America dropped on Amazon Prime Video. The movie–highly anticipated by most…
Ever since Ricky Baker caught a few 12-gauge shells to the legs and back in 1991's Boyz N The Hood—holy shit it…
Coming to America Questions That Need Answers: Was McDowell's Better than McDonald's? An Examination
This week at VSB, in dedication to and preparation for Friday’s release of Coming 2 America, we’ll be digging…
Another year, another Black History Month coming to a close. For the past 28 days, The Root has been celebrating…
I mean, bruh. If this ain’t one of the Blackest album covers of all time then I don’t know what is. Wilson Pickett…