(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2012 Grammys will be the first time I actually watched the award show in who knows how many years. I am actually excited to see which artists will be acknowledged for their excellence from the music calendar year of 2011 (September 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011). This ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Death is an equal opportunity offender. It does not discriminate. It comes for the old and the young; the rich and the poor. It could care less about title, status of one’s net worth. It doesn’t make appointments; it comes when its ready and many times when you are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Beyoncé Knowles is featured in a new L’Oreal commercial for a foundation system called True Match. In the advertisement, Knowles states, “There’s a story behind my skin. It’s a mosaic of all the faces before it. My only make-up? True Match.” Knowles’ heritage is described in the ad as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For about two decades now, Denzel Washington has been one of the most charismatic and popular A-list superstars in movies. He’s been that rare movie star unblemished by scandal and broadly respected by filmmakers and audiences. For the most part, he has played a prototypical hero but lately, like ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I just spent one hour of my life watching VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop Reality Check; the behind the scenes wrap of the reality series that would have to suffice for an actual reunion since half the cast can’t stand each other. While watching the show I learned Mona Scott-Young, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Don Cornelius was my uncle. No, he wasn’t my grandmother’s brother or some dude that grew up with my grandfather, but he was a member of my family. He came to my home every week, bearing gifts, dropping jewels and genuinely seemed to take an interest in our condition. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During Black History month, students are bombarded with facts about the important attributions African Americans have contributed to society. We learn that African Americans were not just main contributors to the civil rights movement, but in government, engineering, and the medical field as well. One aspect we need not leave out ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2011 winner of the “Most Controversial Movie” award proved to be a big winner at last night’s SAG Awards. The Help snagged statues for best ensemble cast, best actress, Viola Davis, and best supporting actress Octavia Spencer. In Spencer’s acceptance speech she thanked the women, like the one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last night, President Obama, our first African American President, delivered his third State of the Union address. On that same day, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated two gifted African American actresses, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, for Oscars for playing maids in The Help. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is an old story, a wild free-wheeling Top Gun, his wingman and their staid commander fighting the top brass on their behalf. We have seen this before, but this time the heroes’ faces are all Black. Red Tails is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, WWII fighter pilots ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Tuskegee Airmen were the quintessential credits to their race when disproving racist stereotypes was considered a part of every respectable black person’s job description. It’s unreasonable, when you think about it, to expect one person or even a group of 1,000 to disprove all the negative opinions being ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me start off by saying that I am not that old. But at 45 I would consider myself to be old school and I’m not talking the 1990’s. I remember back in the day when a group was called a band, they really were a band. The members ...