(ThyBlackMan.com) With the recent passing of Actress, Poet and Civil Rights Activist Ruby Dee, the overall bar of excellence in the creative Black world has been reduced. Ruby Dee has passed away on the heels of Maya Angelou and I do not feel that our great persons of influence get ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A few days ago, Chris Brown was released from jail looking happy (and hefty,) while also relishing his first steps of freedom as a now 25 year old man. 25 is the age of the quarter, where young men and women now embrace adulthood and begin to prepare themselves ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By now the Chuck D/Hot 97 beef has been well-documented by blogs, and anyone with access to Twitter can see the back-and-forth exchange that’s spanned several days. Long story short, Chuck D blasted Hot 97 for this year’s Summer Jam show, calling it a “sloppy fiasco” and criticizing the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The only time I ever met Usher was at his very first album release party in 1994. At the time, I was working for NARAS (The Grammy Awards) and Usher was just a child with great talent; not much older than Justin Bieber in the video above. That is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Kevin Hart may be the hottest comedian in the country right now, but his status is in jeopardy as long as he keeps putting his foot in his mouth. Hart recently did an interview with Playboy Magazine and was asked about the nature of his jokes. Kevin was first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Being media savvy is almost an art form; knowing what to say or do to trigger the media and the public is something that appears to take great skill to achieve. After the Solange-Jay-Z debacle earlier this month, the in-laws took to the store to go shopping, while Solange ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everyone knows about the fight between the rapper T.I. and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. The two got into their infamous brawl over TI’s wife, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle and their “little incident” at a Fatburger restaurant. Apparently, T.I.’s jealousy is strong enough to make him try to punch the greatest ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the aftermath of the fallout between Beyonce’s sister Solange and her husband Jay-Z, some have seriously pondered the negative impact, if any, that the now infamous elevator brawl will have on Beyonce’s career. I offer this opinion-None at all! As Beyonce has proven in the past by putting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Are You What You See or Are You What You Want To Be? Blackface minstrelsy was the first distinctly American theatrical form. It began more than 300 years ago with whites in blackface doing exaggerated depictions of enslaved Africans. In time Blacks began playing themselves, deriding their own personas. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s a war going on outside, no man is safe from, you could run but you can’t hide forever, from these streets that we done took you walking with your head down scared to look, you shook cause ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks. -Excerpt from Prodigy of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Singer Pharrell Williams said that there is now a New Black, and he is one of them, thus generating a storm of controversy over the notion that we can, should, or have moved beyond the historic struggles of our past to a new, free, fresh and empowering identity. This ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I fought long and hard and often for the word “Nigga” to be used exclusively between Black people only, as a term of endearment that symbolized our power as a community to take something that originated in pure hatred, and make it into something positive. We failed. The word ...