(ThyBlackMan.com) After witnessing the firing of Roland Martin and Soledad O’Brien from CNN, and hearing the strong probability that Donna Brazile will soon be next, it really hit home for me when I read and article that quoted Steve Harvey on how racist Hollywood still is and far behind we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently I was informed that articles and essays I have been writing, content wise, for the past 30 years, would no longer be published in an urban newspaper I have been writing for over the past 20 years since its inception. I would place links but I don’t want ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is Hip Hop Destroying Black America? To answer this question fairly, we must first discard the distorted image of Hip Hop that mainstream media has passed off for the past 20 years. Hip Hop is a movement consisting of 4 main artistic elements: DJ’ing, Rapping, Breaking and Graffiti. But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke highlight April 13 Detroit concert celebrating the musical legacy of African Americans. It is often said that the entertainment world provides few examples of African Americans displaying love for each other but Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke sing a different tune, literally. The husband and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After hearing of the classless Instagram social media rant attack that Fantasia Barrino levied on the one and only Jet magazine for not using her submitted current photos for her cover shot but chose to use a picture that’s approximately ten years old for its March 18, 2013 issue, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Music. It’s that unifying medium that bonds people together who don’t even know each other, but because of the mutual love in their soul for that particular song, certified strangers are in actuality friends who have not met each other yet. Isn’t that a beautiful thing? The interesting thing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Comedian Kevin Hart both astounds and impresses the h*ll out me. I can’t say that he’s ever really made me laugh all that much, but he’s clearly one of the brightest entertainers in Hollywood. It seemed that he came out of nowhere, like the meteorite that slammed into Russia ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This adorable little sister is doing and doing it big. Quvenzhane Wallis recently made history being nominated as the youngest actress and African American actress to be nominated for the Oscar. Quvenzhane did not take home the coveted award, but she still scored big on her next Hollywood endeavor. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The one word to describe Paul Robeson is “giant.” He was born April 9, 1898 and died Jan. 23, 1976. He was a person of extraordinary power, significance, and importance; a man of enormous strength and stature. Paul Robeson was an artist of the highest order; a singer, actor, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The rapper Chuck D, founder of the legendary hip-hop group, Public Enemy, said some things on national television that were both unexpected and necessary in our nation’s misguided political discourse. During an interview on CNN discussing the one-year anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, Chuck mentioned that since ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I consider the South Side of Chicago to be my second home. I love this community like no other, and I find this part of the city to be filled with hard working, intelligent, loving and industrious citizens. The South Side gets a lot of attention for the violence, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a blind man, Stevie Wonder never saw the face of Emmett Till. But like millions of other Americans, Wonder can clearly see that Lil Wayne was wrong for blatantly disrespecting Emmett Till’s legacy. Stevie Wonder has spoken up in the national chorus to chastise Lil Wayne for a ...