(ThyBlackMan.com) I have come to the realization that the lack of the ability of the majority of citizens of these United States, in particular we African Americans, t think critically is intentional and have taken a turn for the worse. It like clear that the main reason for this is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My Older brother Donald was actually my uncle, but we were close enough in age that he was pretty much a sibling. I’d looked up to him from the day I was born and followed him around for the next 25 years. I followed him to my first trip ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The revelations by former Essence Magazine editor Constance White both intrigued and concerned me. Not to say that I was surprised, but I admittedly long for the days when my friend Susan Taylor stood at the helm of the magazine, and Essence represented something black, extraordinary and authentic. There was a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bill O’Reilly is to the news world what a Justin Bieber headline is to a non-Belieber; after a while, the redundancy can and will take a toll mentally. To further add mental restraint onto the pile of already yay-high Bill O’ Reilly discrepancies, O’Reilly decides to attack Beyoncé’s resurgence, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On his March 14th appearance on the Arsenio Hall Show, Kid Cudi criticized, as he termed it, the “money, cash, hoes” hip hop of contemporary music and suggested new content for those artists to pursue. However, his critique offered something else: an alternative expression of masculinity connected with emotion ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There seems to be ominous plot to not only effeminize the black man, but to get rid of his masculinity altogether. It seems like the media, the music industry and Hollywood is steadily promoting the gender-less, integrated black man, who doesn’t mind “fitting in” just to be socially accepted. This should ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The loss of Aaron McGruder for the cult classic The Boondocks, hit home high and low to a vast majority of fans of the show. His loss was clearly evident when the season premiere of the shows first episode “Pretty Boy Fizzy,” premiered Monday, and the loss of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Earlier this week many news outlets, including the Huffington Post reported that fans of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta were “sent into a frenzy on Monday, with the announcement of not only the show’s forthcoming Season 3 premiere on May 5, but also the forthcoming release of a sex ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) They tell me that in order to make it in Hollywood you have to first sit on the casting couch. The casting couch basically means have sexual relations of all kinds with people in the industry who are well connected and in power. They include directors, agents, producers, etc. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Due to their interesting choices in programming, VH1 might be better referred to as “The Evil Empire.” Their endless stream of reality TV shows tend to focus on taking otherwise irrelevant black people and making them as recognizable as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (I’m serious: There are black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Time has brought about an immeasurable amount of change. In hip hop’s heyday, rap music was, without question, authentic and thorough; nowadays, people march to a different drum. It appears that only one vainglorious record is all that is required for an individual to be awarded a multi-million dollar ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Matthew Knowles, Beyonce’s father and former manager, has dirty laundry that has been all out in the public for years and many are taking different stances in the classic case of an affair gone terribly wrong. In case you haven’t been following the story, Alexsandra Wright is the woman ...