(ThyBlackMan.com) Wesley Snipes has teamed with Ray Norman to write a story that will have the reader turning pages, eager to find out what happens next, and losing sleep. Given Snipes background with action films, and of course Blade, he brings a sense of reality to a story the reader ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Cook County Attorney Kim Foxx got it right and wrong. She blasted the Jussie Smollett prosecution for wasting tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on what by any legal standard was a relatively trivial case. She lambasted vindictive police and prosecutors for their relentless and non-stop determination to nail ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As many governors, school boards and educational systems are trying to erase history by banning certain books in our schools and public libraries, how powerful to have ABC’s mini-series “Women of the Movement: the story of Mamie Till Mobley,” told at this particular time. Some governors have even said ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a particular pain, and scaring, that takes place where there seems to be no place to call home. Regardless of parentage, and blood lines, when you can’t physically or internally head home everything is out of place. In the quest to find out people, in this case ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (**) The title spills the beans. In this sci-fi yarn, the filmmakers weren’t happy enough with a natural disaster: the moon hurtling towards earth. They had to add an outrageous AI storyline that makes what could have been a worthy, mildly plausible, catastrophic and action-filled movie a joke. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I admit that I enjoy movies. I’ve always enjoyed movies and, when time permits, I will opt for a few moments of escape in a movie theater. I can find interest in any genre, especially movies that provoke thought and a broader than normal consideration of social circumstance and events. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sidney Poitier’s family hailed from tiny Cat Island in the Bahamas. As a boy of four, he would leave the house on his own and wander the woods or go swimming out in the sea, all by himself. He was born in Southern Florida while his mother was working ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Speller Street Films presents in partnership with The Pinhook and Mo’ Better Soul, Black Kung Fu Cinema. The program is a traveling exhibition and screening series showcasing Blaxploitation and action films from the 1970s through the 1990s. Black Kung Fu Cinema will show The Black Dragon’s Revenge, starring Ron ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you know that there are scholarships available specifically for musically inclined students? If you are a musician, dancer, singer, or actor, you may be able to get money for college tuition! In this article, Benjy Grinberg will discuss how to get scholarships for the musically inclined. We will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black History Month will soon be coming to a close, but it is not too late to celebrate, donate, and/or commemorate Black excellence, Black history, and Black solidarity. Each year I try to learn about someone in Black history who may not be well known and discussed in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Feature films and documentaries entertained and enlightened audiences at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The non-fiction films were as compelling as the crime thrillers, family dramas and adolescent romances. Nearly all left a lasting impression. Cha Cha Real Smooth (***1/2) Twenty-three-year-old writer/actor/director Cooper Raiff knows how to capture the attention ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nothing is drastically wrong with this rom/com. Nothing is drastically right. That’s the problem. This Valentine’s Day offering feels like a present that’s been regifted and passed along. Jennifer Lopez took big chances in her last movie Hustlers. She played a streetwise stripper and that paid off, winning her accolades for ...