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I sit here numb and unable to find the right words to express how I feel about Kobe Bryant being dead at 41. I'm leaking confidence and feel as if anything I say won't nearly capture what his …
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I remember watching Showtime at the Apollo as a child. Broadcast from the famed Harlem theater, the show focused on the venue’s amateur night,…
This past February, eventual No. 1 NBA Draft pick Zion Williamson and his Duke Blue Devils played a college basketball game against their riva…
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Full disclosure: Jay-Z is my favorite rapper of all time.
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It's the Fourth of July again. And as a black man in the South, I feel conflicted.
Colin Kaepernick is the face of Nike’s latest campaign celebrating 30 years of “Just Do It.” So now, some people are boycotting Nike for featu…
When I got the notification on my phone that read “Aretha Franklin is dead,” I got a pit in my stomach the same as I feel when losing a family…
I’m not a betting man, but I would guarantee that at every black barbershop in the country, patrons and barbers have had the “GOAT” discussion.
I was a born hustler. At age 12 I had my own hip-hop newsletter where I would contact underground hip-hop artists and interview them. Sunday a…
Being a hip-hop performer in Columbia is an uphill battle. Things are better now, but I’ll be 35 years old in August and my first time on stag…
Should compassion come with an asterisk? Sort of like the asterisk Roger Maris had after he broke Babe Ruth’s single season record of 61 home …
According to Kanye West, our ancestors were pussies.
My father is LaVar Ball. Not literally, but in that he’s a proud and outspoken black father. I believe that if I was a prospect in the 2017 NB…
There aren’t many people that I admire more than my father, Alfonso Jacobs Sr. He may read this with surprise, as growing up with him may have…
