(ThyBlackMan.com) As I sit here and think about what’s going on in my mind today, I became more aware of an issue that has greatly bothered me over this past year: colorism One of the biggest weapons that The System likes to use to divide us is “The Light Brown Skin ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is no secret the recent exploitation of Nate Parker’s sexually irresponsible adolescent (19) behavior is a ploy to discredit his character in effort to create a cloud of suspicion around his new work, Birth of a Nation, a film centered around freedom fighter Nat Turner. In discussing the inception ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Robert Mitchum, Rip Torn, Nick Nolte, Hugh Grant, Roman Polanski, John Travolta, Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn, Nicholas Cage, Sean Connery, Rob Lowe, Kelsey Grammer, Tim Allen, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Downey, Jr., and of course everybody’s favorites Woody Allen and Bill Cosby. They all have three things in common. They are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Brother Nate: I write to you as my brother because I cannot think of anything else to call you but my brother. When I learned about how you and your friend were tried for raping an intoxicated fellow student at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, the anger, embarrassment, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re a jazz lover and want to look upon the contemporary face of jazz royalty, take a moment to go check out Ms. Rita Edmond on Youtube. She’s the jazz world’s best kept secret. She’s currently working on her third CD, but even on her first CD, she made it abundantly clear ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Often when I think about being a Black woman in America, I think of W.E.B. Dubois and the concept of “double consciousness” he wrote about in “The Souls of Black Folk”: It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Alicia Keys tells EBONY she doesn’t believe in being “flawless,” yet on the set of the September Issue shoot, the 15-time Grammy® Award-winning music artist, philanthropist and judge on the new season of NBC’s The Voice proves she’s still a girl on fire. The fresh-faced star posed perfectly in futuristic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent news, a rumor has been spiraling through the internet that two of America’s most lyrical rappers are on a collision course that may possibly alter the state of Hip-Hop. In one corner, there is the Canadian born rapper/singer who appears to have single- handedly redefined the rap culture ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The minute I saw online that Adele would be having a new single out soon (Hello), I knew the pop world was going to be upside down. The song had yet to be released, but because of the new emphasis on streaming via record labels, it was going to be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We all know that there are two sides in the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLMM), but do we know who or what those two sides are? Are they racial, political, or cultural? Is the conflict centered on police vs? Black folks? Who are the two sides and why does ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am quite confident that what I am about to write will prove to be quite controversial, but I implore my readers to please read carefully what I am about to write. I will preface this column with one of my favorite Bible verses, Proverbs 4:7: “Wisdom is the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) More than a couple of million folks have responded to the words spoken by Jesse Williams, which points out the fact that many Black people are mesmerized by words that excite us and stimulate our emotions. Rather than initiating practical and appropriate actions as a result of words that ...