(ThyBlackMan.com) Laurence Fishburne will be the narrator of an upcoming PBS documentary about black workers in the post-slavery South. The film, titled “Slavery by Another Name,” is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas A. Blackmon. Blackmon’s composition is a powerful account of how America surreptitiously maintained slavery under ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip-Hop titans Jay-Z and Kanye West interestingly decided on “No Church in the Wild” as the first track on their long-anticipated album, Watch the Throne. I want to explore this understanding of “the wild” within two critical realms of African American life, Black churches and Hip-Hop culture. It’s not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In today’s rap culture, the references of drugs, guns, and the mistreatment of women are prevalent in today’s lyrics and videos. Everyone comments on the lack of direction and substance inside of rap today, with record company executives using an alleged simplistic formula with their artists to sell records ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most of us loved “In Living Color” back in the day. The skits were original and creative and the cast was incredibly talented. The show produced household names like Jamie Foxx, Jim Carey, Damon Wayans, and quite a few others. Well, there’s good news for fans of the show. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Listening to the courtroom testimony in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician facing charges in the death of music superstar Michael Jackson, one cannot help but feel sorrowful. It has become apparent that Jackson was addicted to powerful drugs and was so driven to succeed that he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Beyoncé’s been catching a lot flack lately. In the past month, if gossip bloggers weren’t clucking about her pregnancy (or non-pregnancy, as some people still believe), they were taking the diva to task for not rolling a disclaimer that her newest videos have been inspired by 90s R&B supergroups ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To use recent vernacular, I can say that Al Sharpton is not a proper negro. But he is a very smart negro. Tyler Perry is also not a proper negro, just a very rich negro. I personally don’t consider myself to be as smart as Sharpton and I know I’m not as rich as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the last 15 years rap has evolved from mafia rap of the mid-late 90’s, rap records for the charts in the early 2000’s, and snap music of the mid 2000’s. In the midst of all of that, Shawn Corey Carter, better known as Jay Z, had remained a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why can’t we let Bey-Bey bump be great? When a baby is on the way, most mothers-to-be enjoy gifts from friends, extra help from family members and well-wishes from co-workers, associates and just about anyone they come in contact with. But for Beyoncé, pregnancy has also brought on the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but has Beyoncé gone too far? The pop diva is being accused of stealing choreography in the new music video for her single “Countdown” — and the troubling thing is, this isn’t the first time Beyoncé’s been accused of being ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s been a “cover girl” year for Rihanna. Literally. Over the past 10 months, the Bajan superstar snagged the covers of Rolling Stone, Vogue UK, Glamour, GQ, and most recently, Esquire magazine, which named her this year’s “Sexiest Woman Alive.” The glamorous shots almost make it easy to forget ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tattoos are an ever increasingly visible form of artistic expression in the African-American community. Two of African-America’s cultural pillars are its love for sports and its love for music. African-American culture is a unique hodgepodge of its African and American components. On one hand, Africa’s history of extreme body ...