VSB Stories: The 2016 WaPo Profile x TheRoot.com Acquires VSB with Damon Young

Pass The Peas with Panama Jackson

Panama is joined by his VerySmartBrothas.com partner, author, podcaster and writer-extraordinaire Damon Young. Dem VSB Boyz talk the 2016 Washington Post profile that Panama thought would cost him his day job because of the behind-the-scenes happenings in VSB land. They also discuss the acquisition of VSB by Univision in 2017 that turned VSB into a vertical of TheRoot.com; how it happened, why it happened and what that process was like for them individually and as a duo. Check it out!

Link to the Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/very-smart-brothas-is-the-blackest-thing-that-ever-happened-to-the-internet-period/2016/11/21/9b62b5aa-8719-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html

Intro Music: Berto Antonio "Morning Rituals"

Break Music: You Gon' Have To Figure That Out Yourself

Outro Music: Berto Antonio "LMK"

All Music used with permission from Berto Antonio's EP, WRTHY https://open.spotify.com/album/7G4ZtHQLxEYUg1DPfXSNTQ?si=zLp8nhgbRpiIujqXnOAtdQ

Produced, Recorded, Edited and Mixed by Panama Jackson

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