(ThyBlackMan.com) I wasn’t so sure what to make of the latest release of the reality minstrel show known as the marriage of Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Evelyn Lozada. Evelyn is one of the many women on that hit TV show “Basketball Baby’s Mamas.” (Wait, it might be “Basketball Wives,” but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Scholar John McWhorter wrote a piece for “The New Republic” about the recent Sikh Temple massacre and the man who caused it, Michael Wade Page. Wade Page was one of the few white supremacists who turned his anger toward people of color into real violence, killing six and wounding ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Harry Belafonte, who did a great deal of work for the black community during the Civil Rights Movement, is making no secret of the fact that he’s very disappointed in many young black celebrities when it comes to to social activism. Speaking this week with the Hollywood Reporter, Harry ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Stop and listen for a minute … have you ever noticed that the whole world is listening to our music? Then take a minute to wonder … how is it, if our music is being bought and sold across the whole world, that we as a community of Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Re-inventing Mike Tyson will never work. The genius behind ‘Undisputed Truth’ lies in its uncut format, exploring all that intrigues us about Tyson. Starring on Broadway, for $75 bucks, former Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson takes on his hardest opponent. Himself. This one man show was a brainchild of his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So last night a friend of mine called me, and said that I had to watch the latest episode of “Love and Hip Hop Atlanta”. I was offended lol. I said why are you acting like we just met? She stated that there were two scenes that I needed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You would fully expect that in the year 2012, black people would not have a problem looking black. But you would never guess that after seeing the reactions that many people had to seeing public pictures of Jay-Z and Beyonce’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter. The photos of the little ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Information is freely available everywhere. So much that it is easy to verify and substantiate with a little effort. However, for most African Americans, the major news topics of the day are ignored by their most treasured sources of information – black owned urban media and radio. Now if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the rate of unemployment reaching record highs across the country in the last few years, many men are at home while the women in their lives are at work. If you look at the statistics in Black communities, the statistics get worse-much worse. The rate of unemployment among ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Depending on whom you ask, Wayne Brady should or should not have taken exception to being used as fodder for the “non-threatening Black man” joke. Also depending on whom you ask, the oft-used joke by Bill Maher should be considered less of an insult and more a compliment, in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The premieres of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta and Hollywood Exes has the Black blogosphere once again all a buzz about the degradation of Black women and the need for better programming to show more positive images of the Black community. The tipping point to this latest round of we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The hip-hop world has been blowing up over recent revelations that the former ceo of Czar Entertainment, James Rosemond was involved in the 1994 attack on rapper Tupac Shakur who was ambushed in an NYC elevator sustaining gunshots wounds from which he would recover. Some believe this started a ...