(ThyBlackMan.com) If anything, Oprah Winfrey is a person who knows how to sell a show. Pushing the OWN network has required this savvy businesswoman to pull all the stops to find ways to get people interested in what she has created. The latest venture for Oprah is a head-to-head with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the last few years an actor been trying to find his way to fame but claim he hasn’t had any type of notices from the press or news media from the work he’s done. His name is Jeremy L. Murph an young African American actor who say’s he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Lupita Nyong’o has been making her rounds on-screen at award shows and in the magazines, detailing her effortless fashion style. However, the moment that I felt a sense of connection with Lupita was during her speech on beauty standards and self-image. Recently, Lupita Nyong’o attended Essence Magazine‘s Black Women in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you’re sitting in the chair waiting for your segment to begin on CNN, you can sometimes see the segment that comes on right before your own. On this particular day, I was set to appear on AC360 right after film director Spike Lee, a man with whom I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I think I speak for a lot of normal black people when I say that I sometimes grow tired of the rapper Rick Ross. Ross has always been a creative, yet relatively useless public figure in the past, but his recent disrespect for the legacy of Trayvon Martin might be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You may speak and ponder what you will about Kanye West, but it’s unbearable to refute his cultural impact as a rapper, songwriter, and producer/beat maker in music period. Ten years ago today, Kanye West released his groundbreaking debut, The College Dropout, to critical appraise and rap fans who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the police said they were looking for Hoffman’s drug dealer laughed because they know damm he was the drug dealer. He bought, used, gave and sold to all his high profile friends. That’s why they found a sh*tload of drugs around him. Then they drudge up four of his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Historically speaking, the Grammy’s have always leaned toward presenting the more prevalent act in any particular category. While it may have come as astonishment to many that Macklemore beat Kendrick Lamar head to head in each category they were featured in, it was common knowledge that Macklemore had the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many will argue that because George Zimmerman was in fact acquitted by a jury of his peers, he should no longer be looked upon as a murderer. However, in a justice system where what you can prove often outweighs what actually happened, it is more than understandable why many ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ever since I have written about America’s Pursuit of Unattainable Beauty, I have been keenly alert to issues within current feminism. On a fundamental level, feminism is supposed to be about women’s equality. As simple as that definition is, it’s also effortless to see what feminism is not. And what Beyonce did ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After Sunday’s Grammy catastrophe which mainly included Seattle rapper Macklemore sweeping the rap categories (excluding the Best Rap/Sung collaboration in which Jay-Z’s Holy Grail won,) many fans of the hip hop and overall music world have been appalled at the nonexistence of attention that Kendrick Lamar received at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) ”I don’t know what this means. I don’t think it means anything.” – Singer Eddie Vedder after winning a Grammy for “Best Hard Rock Performance” with his group Pearl Jam in 1996. “I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They ...