(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Numerous reggae musicians both from the past and present are self-proclaimed revolutionaries. Modern society seems to accept their claims, whether or not they have done any revolutionary acts. Though Bob Marley is the commercially accepted king of reggae, his bandmate Peter Tosh holds a grander title: the title of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes you just have to live long enough to see some of your heroes unfortunately become villains. In this case, it was a trailer that broke my heart. Like every other enthusiastic Spike Lee fan, I watched the trailer to his latest joint Chiraq. Sigh. I had to watch ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We all love celebrities. Their good looks, relationship woes, and over-the-top personalities make them prime fodder for entertainment even when they don’t mean to be in the public eye. We simply want to know what makes them tick because, well, they seem so different from the average person. One ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “A massacre kept secret for over 100 years. Now the truth will finally be revealed.” The Wilmington Massacre was a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with the support of the North Carolina Democratic Party on November 10, 1898 in the port city ...