(ThyBlackMan.com) Nate Parker, Writer, Director, Producer and Star of the slave rebellion drama, Birth of a Nation, just made history. The film sold for a record-breaking $17.5 million the morning after an all-night bidding war following its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. That’s the largest sum ever paid for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year’s Academy Awards in Hollywood. The assumption seems to be that different groups would be proportionally represented if somebody were not doing somebody else wrong. That assumption carries great weight in far more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whatever you may think of Bill Cosby, he is definitely not the Cosby Show dad. By now, most of us should know the Cosby Show was an unrealistic look at African American upscale life. Not because of the doctor and lawyer professions, but rather because they never dealt with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Numerous recent articles have attacked LeBron James for his failure to engage in protests in support of Tamir Rice, a youth murdered by police officers who was acquitted of any charges. These responsibilities are unfair, due to Mr. James’ profession as athlete, entertainer, and coon. Commentators on such articles ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Alright anyone with any reasonable level of intelligence knows that FOX News ( a poor excuse for journalism) has made Stacey Dash a commentator simply because she is willing to bad mouth her own people and say what white racists really want to say themselves. But because they would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So today a friend of mine tagged me on Facebook and asked me did I think Beyoncé has surpassed Michael Jackson during his peak era of 1982 to maybe shortly after 1992. In my opinion, I believe it depends on how much you like Beyonce or appreciate her as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s talk about the only thing that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that’s the group that picks the Oscar nominees and winners, understands. That’s dollars and cents. African-Americans spend more, in fact far more, dollars proportionately on Hollywood films than any other segment of the film ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nothing brings a community together like the struggle for social justice. Being side by side in the trenches for a collective good is something that many people within the black community have done for a very long time. Our communities have often become stronger from the shared struggle that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I must’ve been in high school when I was riding in the car with my mother as we listened to Tom Joyner, I believe it was, call Aaliyah up in school, yes school, and ask her about her marriage to R. Kelly. I don’t really remember all of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first heard the allegations against Bill Cosby it literally made my stomach go weak. I listened for undated reports hoping to hear that it was all some kind of scam initiated by an irate or greedy woman who was simply trying to get into his pocket. I felt what I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Millions of people around the world are familiar with the hypnotic rhythms of reggae that originated from Jamaica, a small colonial island in the Caribbean Sea. Reggae is what propelled the ideology of Rastafari to the world through the melodious, socially conscious tunes of Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Dennis ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, XXLMAG.com released a list of the five biggest dance crazes of 2015. Of the five dances listed, “The Quan” accompanied by the song Hit The Quan by iHeartMemphis and the “Whip/Nae Nae” accompanied by the song Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) by Silento, were the two obvious choices for this year’s top dances. For kids ...