(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2018 ESPY Awards was another gathering of the world’s best athletes being honored in front of their peers and competitors. There was history made as former professional race car driver Danica Patrick became the first female host in ESPY Awards history. The 2018 ESPY Awards also included one of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Mi Band 2 was a massive hit and Xiaomi Mi Band 3 won’t be an exception, with the features it offers. The device was officially announced for the Chinese market but Xiaomi didn’t say anything about the worldwide launch. The Mi Band 2 was made available globally after being ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Public opinion has always had its thoughts on matters regarding social issues especially where celebrity figures are concerned. However, social media has made that court, in some instances, more valued than the court of law on any given matter. It’s ironic that black people know what it feels like to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like most people, we all tend to struggle to find the motivation to get out of bed every morning and push ourselves to get the most from our lives. Whether we are stuck in a dead end job, overweight or unhealthy, or struggling financially, there comes that moment where we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth…arrogance into humility…brutality into patriotism. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” Joseph Heller Catch-22 Truth, sometimes, is stranger than fiction. This quote, in some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Essence Festival brings a lot of money to New Orleans every year. Some local businesses will benefit from the influx of tourist in town for said events. We all know which restaurants are going to be packed as visitors’ flock to get a taste of New Orleans. Some local ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I guess that it is a good thing to be reminded that being a black man in America comes at an extreme cost to one’s identity. As I have mentioned in this space previously, there are times that I feel like Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Now, I do not want ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A pioneer is “a person or group that originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development”. In sports, pioneers are often viewed as people who make innovations or breakthroughs in how a sport is played or how the business ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, leading to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, has thrown progressives, the Democratic Party and the news media into an out-and-out tizzy. The online magazine Slate declared, “Anthony Kennedy Just Destroyed His Legacy as a Gay Rights Hero.” The New York ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Paul Porter has been in the music industry, and apart of radio, for what seems like more than a lifetime. He has watched the music change, and the industry itself as the goal became get money at all cost. In his book “Blackout: My 40yrs in the Music Business” he ...