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About Panama Jackson

Panama Jackson is a columnist at theGrio and host of the award-winning podcast, "Dear Culture" on theGrio Black Podcast Network. He writes very Black things, drinks very brown liquors, and is pretty fly for a light guy. His biggest accomplishment to date coincides with his Blackest accomplishment to date in that he received a phone call from Oprah Winfrey after she read one of his pieces (biggest) but he didn't answer the phone because the caller ID said "Unknown" (Blackest).

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June 6, 2024
Ray J was on “Club Shay Shay,” and where Ray goes, shenanigans follow. He did not disappoint despite his best…
Sexyy Red, Kamala Harris, theGrio.com
June 3, 2024
I can’t say I’ve been a fan of Sexyy Red’s music, but experiencing her live show gave me some new…
May 31, 2024
In the new Eminem single, "Houdini" Megan Thee Stallion has to be wondering how she got in it and why…
Judge J. Cedric Simpson and Corey Harris
May 30, 2024
A Michigan man with a suspended driver’s license joined a virtual court hearing … while driving. Everybody was in disbelief.
May 28, 2024
Some of you enjoy a good missed flight, but airplane tickets cost too much money for such shenanigans.
May 24, 2024
On Sexyy Red's song "U My Everything" Drake raps over the "BBL Drizzy" beat and it, well...sucks. He shouldn't do…
May 23, 2024
I’m hoping my sons’ soccer aspirations pay off big time so we can offset the insanely high costs we will…
May 21, 2024
The often charming, but ridiculous Cam’ron seemed overly disrespectful toward Abby Phillip even though he didn’t have to be there.
May 17, 2024
The 2016 hotel footage allegedly shows Diddy kicking, shoving and manhandling his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie.
Brick school building in Virginia
May 16, 2024
The Shenandoah County, Va., school board decided that the best way to address racism is to honor it with confederate…
May 14, 2024
A recent trip to a trampoline park for my son’s birthday and one bad landing made me realize that one…
May 9, 2024
Questlove, the cultural curator and drummer for The Roots seems to hate where this latest hip-hop beef has gone.
Rapper J. Cole performs
May 7, 2024
When J. Cole apologized to Kendrick Lamar for dissing him on record, he looked wack — as it turns out,…
May 3, 2024
On '6:16 in LA," Kendrick Lamar used Drake’s playbook against him and let the world know that even Drake’s own…
Shaboozey’s 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)', theGrio
May 2, 2024
The genre-bending rapper-country singer Shaboozey dropped a song that jams and nods to “Tipsy,” one of the great club jams…
English Premier League, theGrio.com
May 1, 2024
While it seems like many fans of Arsenal don’t love next season’s away kit, I can’t wait to buy a…
April 26, 2024
Outkast’s debut album celebrates its 30-year anniversary on the same day one of its chief architects is being laid to…
April 25, 2024
I put my racial profiling paranoia away for ONE second, and got burned by a woman who thought a public…
Rapper Nas performs onstage
April 23, 2024
Nas’ game-changing debut album, Illmatic, is now 30 years old and is still a clinic in lyricism and worldbuilding.
Black man dap, theGrio.com
April 12, 2024
The tradition of dapping in the Black community was tested recently when I and another Black man failed in a…