(ThyBlackMan.com) If there’s one thing that has become a staple of presidential campaigns over the decades, it’s the campaign theme song. These have become essential for politicians in recent years, but actually the history of the campaign song goes back a lot further, and songs have been playing a role ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was driving down Addison Avenue, in the early 2000s, on my way to a Cubs game when I heard an esoteric song blaring from a car near me. An adept Chicago driver, I wove my way down the narrow road (always signaling) to place myself right next to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Netflix, the popular streaming service is available in 41 countries in the world today. Currently originating from the U.S, the biggest gripe of using the service is the fact that if you are living outside the geographical boundaries of the United States, then you will not be able to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I first saw the original Stars Wars trilogy when was I six years old as a little black boy amazed by a galaxy far, far away, but growing up black and nerdy meant paying more attention to the issue race played in the films. Although the lack of black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From the first magical moment on the screen, The Wiz Live on NBC treated families black, and hopefully otherwise, to the Broadway musical experience from the privacy of our own living rooms. This dazzling display of musical talent from an all-star black cast was not only entertaining, but it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The year of 2015, in terms of urban music and culture, could be reminisced in two ways; the endless quantities of dance songs and gimmicky radio hits that has the youth of today at attention, or the immaculate run of Nayvadius Wilburn, better known as Future, that made his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Standards of beauty are viewed the world over by the same criteria except when the person in question is of mixed race, specifically, a person of African American blood and another ethnicity. Case in point: Miss Japan 2015, 21 year old Ariana Miyamoto, is of mixed-race, or hafu, as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When acclaimed director, actor, producer, Spike Lee broke onto the Hollywood scene in the 1980s; he truly had to fight the power. Hollywood was not ready for a young, brash, provocative filmmaker like Lee. He burst on the scene with provocative movies like She’s Gotta Have It, School Daze ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I know when that Hotling Bling…” That’s my jam right there. I have it as my ring tone. So, when I hear my phone start singing… “I know it can only mean one thing”….And, then I remember Drake’s song… “Look What You’ve Done for Me….” That’s a deep song. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Up ye mighty Race” Pan Africanist Marcus Garvey was born in the parish of St, Ann, the same parish as Bob Marley and Burning Spear. He became a master printer at the age of eighteen. “Africa for the Africans” a term attached to Garvey actually came from Dr. Robert ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So I was watching the Soul Train Music Awards just jamming. A LOT of my old faves were performing! It was the perfect way to end a Thanksgiving Weekend. Then it happened, R Kelly came on stage. As I watched him free I lamented for the girls who he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The other day I was watching Empire by Lee Daniels. And, I enjoyed it, immensely. Evidently, I wasn’t alone in my sentiments because nine million other viewers tuned in. After further investigation, I discovered that not only was Empire the No.1 new show, but also the No. 2 scripted ...