(ThyBlackMan.com) Lil Wayne recently cemented his place as The Biggest Negropean In Hip-Hop History when he recently sat down with a black woman for an interview on Nightline in which he said: “That just sounds weird. I don’t know that you put a name on… It’s not a name. It’s not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tyler Perry is faced with a dilemma: the actor and director is still struggling to get white audiences to see his movies. More specifically, he tells The Wrap in an interview published yesterday, “I still have issues getting screens in white neighborhoods believe it or not,” arguing that he believes Lionsgate (distributor ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Filmmaker Nate Parker’s Birth of A Nation has as of this past weekend grossed over twelve million dollars. The film cost eight point five million to make, so it is making a profit despite attempts to undermine this important film about Nat Turner. We went to see it last week. I was impressed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, I went to see the new film, “Birth of a Nation” by director Nate Parker. I’ll start by saying that the film was one of the great cinematic masterpieces of all-time. Not only is the story of Nat Turner a powerful one, it’s one that’s been hidden in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even though bigots and black feminists tried to bury the film and mainstream publications like The Wall Street Journal called the film a “flop“, but when I looked at how much the film had made at the box office: $9.5 million dollars. I see it as a very successful film ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I can’t imagine my spouse being robbed at gunpoint and I’m a woman. One could only image the horror of a husband when he gets a call informing him that his wife was robbed at gunpoint. That she was overseas, and men broke into her apartment, held her at gunpoint, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a raging controversy over Nate Parker’s writing, directing and starring in a film about Nat Turner. Let’s look at some little known facts underpinning this fiery debate. The movie is called BIRTH OF A NATION. The first film bearing that name came out in 1915 and was the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Birth of a Nation is about Nat Turner as an enslaved Baptist preacher who lives on a Virginia plantation owned by Samuel Turner. With rumors of insurrection in the air, a cleric convinces Samuel that Nate should sermonize to other slaves, thereby quelling any notions of an uprising. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At the time of writing, BOAN (an acronym for Birth of a Nation) is trending. Not because of the film itself. Or even directly because of the controversy surrounding Nate Parker — its star, director, executive producer, and head writer. But because it performed below most expectations, which is being ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) TV’s GHOST BROTHERS are back! Production of the hit series that brings humor and good manners to ghost hunting is currently underway with Pilgrim Media Group, scheduled to premiere on Destination America in early 2017. GHOST BROTHERS follows budding paranormal enthusiasts Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey, three ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Talk of a rapper with the perfect combo of almost everything that makes one the greatest rapper of all time—from a wicked sense of humor, technical complexity, a knack for storytelling, all the way to the number of verses that have managed to pass as rap quotes or hip hop ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With everything going on in the world we tend to fall for distractions that would take our eyes off the real issues of the day. Some of us are addicted to gossip, and entertainment in manner that is detrimental to movement. While the Presidential election campaign has turned into one ...