Damon Young is a Black Pittsburgh writer who has gotten national attention thanks in part to a blog he co-writes called Very Smart Brothas (now part of The Root). I started following it on social media a few years ago and have found it to be funny, entertaining, informative and a source of sharp social criticism. The local story that really put Damon Young and VSB on my radar had to do with a local white female newscaster who stepped in it with some horribly […]
“White supremacy … is gravity. It is a ceaseless pressure intended to keep blackness ground-bound and sick.”
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young
