(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today marks one year since this blog has been in existence. Last year January 12th marked the return of The Game; now in it’s fifth season. The show returned to BET Tuesday night to answer all the questions left open and up in the air last year. Yes, girl Melanie ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Healing starts when you create dialogue.”- Bill Duke at the Apollo premiere of Dark Girls1/13/12 On Friday, January 13, 2012, Dark Girls: The Movie premiered at the Apollo Theater in New York City. Here I offer a review of the film and its implications for its intended audience, women ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why are we so amazed with the lifestyles of the rich and famous? Sometime we are even mesmerized with the not so rich and famous. I understand that some of us need a form of escape from reality, so we turn to reality television, such as The Atlanta Housewives, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s an unlikely duo for rap beef: Common and Drake. A guy once known for wearing crocheted pants versus America’s most successful emo-rapper. And yet, somehow against the odds, Common has pinned Drake in his cross-hairs as a fortuitous enemy to hip-hop at-large, taking shots at the Canadian rapper ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) All hail Blue Ivy. The heir to The Throne is here. Beyonce Knowles Carter gave birth to a baby girl Sunday in New York at Lenox Hill hospital. For the last 10 months we’ve all been consumed with whether or not Beyonce is actually pregnant. Is her baby bump ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Pop the Cristal and pass out the Cigar Aficionados. Yes, the day has arrived. Beyonce has given birth to a bouncing baby girl whom they have named Blue Ivy Carter. In the most anticipated baby news of the year, Beyonce Knowles gave birth to little Blue on January 7th, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember once, Jay Z quoted in an essay to Rolling Stone, that when you hear a great song, you can think about when you first heard it, the sounds, smells, emotions involved etc. That a great song doesn’t try to be anything, it just is. We’ve all seen ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip Hop in 2011 was not all that hot; the usual names dropped albums, and there were too many defunct mix-tapes released. Let’s just say that the best always finish last. And, Common –aka- Common Sense made sure that he did just that with his ninth studio album entitled, ...