(ThyBlackMan.com) In Omari Hardwick’s HerO, a one-act play [bravely directed by Indira Etwaroo] and co-written by Grant Sullivan [Hardwick is the other playwright], a hooded-man dodges bullets from behind a scrim on stage. He is a backdrop and a symbol for the theme of senseless murder Hardwick examines in his one-man ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Speller Street Films has announced a distribution partnership with Alter Eye Cinemaworks to release “White Face” on July 4, 2018 through Vimeo. “White Face” is a dramatic short film on the expression of the current culture wars involving race, identity, politics, and art. From documentaries to challenging narrative films, Speller ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Can you believe that Jay-Z is still occupying a space in rap at the age of 48? A couple of Friday’s ago, Jay-Z, paired with his wife Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, released a duet album titled EVERYTHING IS LOVE. The nine-track album completed the trilogy released over the past two years on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The score of a television show, or movies, is a vital part of the feeling and emotion the show conveys to us. Many of us don’t know many of the people behind the scenes of a show that creates those moods for us the viewer. Kurt Farquhar has scored more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nas released his long awaited-eleventh album Nasir last Friday, but it was met with mixed reviews. Fans raved about the style of production supplied by Kanye West and even loved the political awareness brought on by Nas. But the main criticism was that the lyrics were subpar while his energy ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I must admit the loss of life is very disturbing to my soul. Our children are being buried at a rapid rate; no one can predict the future, so we never know what could have come of them. I’m the first to admit, outside of a handful of artists, I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) White Americans continual charge that Black America is paranoid in regards to occurrences of racial bigotry, the truth of the matter is that our charges of racial bias are supported by tangible evidence. One only needs to look at any study that examines continuing racial disparities between black and white ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Empathy: 1. The imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it. 2. The capacity for participation in another’s feelings or ideas. The stories dominating the news cycle and generating outrage last week were about two comediennes, Roseanne Barr and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me begin by saying I am Not a Cosby apologist. As a woman that is a sexual assault survivor his actions were deplorable and he victims deserve justice. That needs to be said because it seems there is a double standard and when mentioned that person is accused of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, I released my interview with model and feminist activist Amber Rose on my talk show, “The Fallen State.” It was amazing. Last October, I interviewed many young women at the Amber Rose Slut Walk in Los Angeles. Amber and many in the feminist movement seek to get rid ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not one to dive into what I call “Super Fandom”. I don’t love any celebrity to the point of worship, and if we differ on music that’s cool too. Music, like art and literature, is very subjective. What moves on of us won’t make another budge at all. I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most discussed recent videos of the year was premiered recently by Donald Glover via his moniker, Childish Gambino. In the video, a shirtless Glover gyrates across the lot of a huge warehouse while an assortment of comical yet vengefully wretched acts of violence take place in the ...