(ThyBlackMan.com) Rappers Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Kanye West, “P” Diddy, 50 cent, and hip-hop businessmen Russell Simmons, and Snoop Dog, just to name a few, are members of the 250 million Dollar Club—Robert Johnson perhaps being the lone billionaire. The accomplishments that each has attained is remarkable; however, the means to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Celebrity worship has been a part of the human condition for as long as we have been a part of the landscape. I think we sometimes discount the depth of our involvement in the social elevation of those we think of as being heroes, talented, or special. Celebrity worship – of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (***1/2) The mighty women of the Agojie were warriors. From the 1600s to 1800s in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey this all-female military regiment gallantly fought their empire’s enemies. Film fans first glimpsed the Dahomey Amazon legacy in the Marvel movie Black Panther, where the Dora Milaje special forces ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you are a gamer and you try to visualize an image of a large collage of the most renowned protagonists in video games, you will come to the conclusion that many have come to; typically, the image would include characters like Frank Woods (Call of Duty, the game ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A Caucasian police officer shoots an unarmed man – we can and should blame the officer, the police department, the policies in place and the society that allows a climate of racism. A Hispanic sociopath hunts down a teenager in a neighborhood and kills him – we should blame ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On January 15, 1991, famed rap group Gang Starr released their legendary album, Step in the Arena. It is no overstatement to say that Guru and DJ Premier’s contribution to Hip-Hop culture still reverberates at the present moment. Some music outlets went so far as to call the album “the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (***) He came before them… Before Jimi Hendrix and Whitney Houston took creative license with “The Star-Spangled Banner” and before Marc Anthony and Bad Bunny sang salsa and reggaeton, José Monserrate Feliciano Garcia blazed a path. And now this nostalgic scrapbook of his life catalogues his trials and triumphs. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nothing brings a community together like the struggle for social justice. Being side by side in the trenches for a collective good is something that many people within the black community have done for a very long time. Our communities have often become stronger from the shared struggle that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First let me say that sociologically (not legally) any person has the right to dress any way he or she likes. But in a realistic world, our women need to know they will be perceived, received and approached based on how they present themselves. The same is true for us ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Cultural appropriation is an ongoing ill people of color face all over the world. When we look at the plight of black people in the Unites States the culture of the people has given so much to what would be termed as American culture from its inception. The problem ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Life asked death: “Why do people love me but hate you?” Death said: “Because you are a beautiful lie and I’m the painful truth.” Kanye West’s incomprehensible and mindless comment that “slavery was a choice”, this along with his support of Trump have stirred up the wrath of many ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To say their names in one sentence, together, is like committing an act of auto-lingual arousal. These two women have helped to cement a redefinition of beauty that boldly steps away from an otherwise bland field of homogenous features that all seem to glorify a very small global ethnic ...