(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest controversy in Beyoncé Knowles news may be her breast-feeding Blue Ivy in public, but I’m still shaking my head about the recent fuss over her True Match commercial for L’Oréal, which highlights the singer’s mixed-race heritage. In the ad the star says, “There’s a story behind my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congratulations to Ms. Octavia Spencer for winning the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for The Help (2011). I thoroughly enjoyed her on screen passion, humor and audacity. Her irreverence shimmered like glitter, her rage took on an artistic flair, and the relationship ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) @ Jones Hall For The Performing Arts. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was conceived in Rogers, Texas, and later moved to New York City. Alvin Ailey would see his dance company flourish and grow in to an American institution over the course of his life. In the late ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Flashback to February 2009, R&B singer Chris Brown was arrested by theLos Angelespolice for allegedly beating up a woman. Insiders identified the victim as his then superstar girlfriend Rihanna. Three years later and it is now rumored that Rihanna and Chris Brown are back together again however, this time ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The death of pop music icon Whitney Houston has executives at Sony huddling up with marketing reps in its music and film division for a windfall of revenue from movie and DVD sales over the next year and many decades to come. Houston was found Saturday at the Beverly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the years of listening to hip hop continuously, I learned that there were three types of rappers in that hip hop music consists of: you have the “rappers rapper“, the one who everybody in hip hop culture, fan or rapper, consigns. The mainstream rappers, who have the appeal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Led by Robert Battle in His Inaugural Season as Artistic Director, Returns to Houston March 2-4, Presented by Society for the Performing Arts Programs to include Home by Hip-Hop Choreographer Rennie Harris; Paul Taylor’s Arden Court; Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16; Robert Battle’s Takademe, The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At the start of the film industry, Blacks were relegated to disparaging roles, including the roles of overweight, ignorant maid, such as the one portrayed by Hattie McDaniel. To this day, many African Americans continue to celebrate the awarding of an Oscar to McDaniel as though the taking of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Lies on the lips of a priest Thanksgiving disguised as feat – Jay-Z, “No Church in the Wild” The preacher want me buried why? Cause I know he a liar Have you ever seen a crackhead, that’s eternal fire – Tupac, “Blasphemy” Is there any doubt that today ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Reality TV star Omarosa O. Manigault has recently been ordained as a minister, after serving as assistant pastor at the Weller Street Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. She was approved unanimously for the post, with everyone on the ordination committee apparently more concerned with Omarosa’s celebrity status than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Media coverage of singer Whitney Houston’s funeral evoked a disappointment I often feel as a black woman in America. It reminded me that many elements of black culture are still viewed as exotic and, in some cases, disdained as such. Houston’s funeral, but for being broadcast live and attended ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I swear folks really do like to show their behinds after someone has passed. No, I’m not talking about Bobby Brown and his entourage/uninvited family members, who decided to ignore the immediate family’s request that attendees bring only two or three additional guests to Whitney Houston’s funeral and then ...