(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was speaking this morning to the family of Maria Lloyd, the woman who wrote an open letter about her experience of having a father who was given 15 life sentences for drug distribution during the 1980s. During our conversation, Maria mentioned that one of the comments she saw ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) s you’ve probably heard, since the story has been everywhere from gossip blogs to major news outlets, R&B bad boy Chris Brown and rapper Drake got into a bottle-hurling brawl last Wednesday at a New York nightclub. There are seemingly hundreds of conflicting reports and wholesale exaggerations online describing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Canadian politicians and policy makers seem to be establishing a pattern of prejudice. For years now Jerome Almon, a black executive from Detroit has been sounding the alarm that Black people, particularly African-Americans were being profiled by Canadian immigration officials at the borders. Mr. Almon has blamed black celebrities ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I read that Oprah Winfrey was going to interview 50 Cent, I took a moment of pause. I thought, “Why would a champion for women’s rights interview a man who has made millions by degrading women in every way imaginable?” I thought that perhaps this was a public ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) recently read an article in which Russell Simmons defended Gwyneth Paltrowin her use of the word “n*gga” to define her time in Paris with Jay-Z, Beyonce and the rest of her “n*ggas.” Gwyneth Paltrow, like most “down-ass” white girls who get very comfortable around black folks, caught herself slipping ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Michelle Rodriguez has had a steady career in film with such credits as the popular television series “Lost” on her resume and the hugely successful box office smash Avatar. However, comments she recently made about her European ancestors could make an impact on her future in the industry. Considering ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A friend of mine went to New York City to have a meeting with a billionaire. One of the nice advantages of being an Ivy League graduate is that there are super-rich people in the alumni network who can hook you up with amazing opportunities. In fact, that’s why ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Not too long ago, Denzel Washington won the Oscar for “Training Day” as a rogue cop, but not for Malcolm X or Hurricane where arguments could easily be made that his performance in both those films were superior to “Training Day”. Moreover, Halle Berry won an Oscar for her ...