Tracy Clayton
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Tracy Clayton is a writer and humorist born and raised in Louisville, KY. She is the proprietor of BrokeyMcPoverty.com and a contributor at PostBourgie.com. Tracy is a graduate of Transylvania University where she majored in English and minored in Women's Studies. Now working in marketing at an architecture firm, she juggles quite a few writing projects employing her interest in prose, fiction, humor, music, and natural hair.

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In Memory of Common Sense: VSB's 'Rape Responsibility' Fail

1 Comments | Posted January 25, 2012 | 01/25/12 11:20 AM ET

So I'm thinking that the folks at Very Smart Brothas should consider changing their name. To Very Misled Brothas. Very Loud and Wrong Brothas. Or Very Well Intentioned But Ultimately Failing Brothas. Their latest post entitled "'Rape Responsibility' and the Fine Line Between Victim Blaming and...

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5 Obscure R&B Album Covers

Posted November 7, 2011 | 11/07/11 11:49 AM ET

Originally published at Uptown Magazine

As you may or may not know, I have an ever burning love of random, obscure R&B music. It's my favorite thing ever on earth. Especially if it's from the New Jack Swing era, because nobody had any sense then-common sense, fashion sense,...

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What They Don't Tell You About Those Diversity Bake Sales

Posted September 29, 2011 | 09/29/11 05:27 PM ET

So Tuesday, UC Berkeley went ahead with its purposely racist "Diversity Bake Sale." The bake sale charges white people more for baked goods than people of color, with women getting a $0.25 discount. The purpose of this is to protest what the group sees as the racist practice of...

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Exclusive: Ray J's Letter from Jail!

Posted September 23, 2011 | 09/23/11 12:47 AM ET

Okay. So don't ask me how I got this because I can't tell you, BUT, one of my awesome sources got their hands on a piece of juiciness. So you've probably heard about Ray J and Fabolous' fight and Ray J's insane interview by now. Apparently/supposedly, the two came...

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5 Ways To Keep Your Man From Cheating? Really?

Posted September 9, 2011 | 09/09/11 10:52 AM ET

This post was originally published at Uptown Magazine.

A few days ago, The Married Man at Hello Beautiful wrote a charming little piece entitled "5 Ways to Keep Your Man From Cheating." As soon as I read the title, I rolled...

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