(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you know that more telephone calls are made on Mother’s Day than on any other day of the year? That’s because we all want to make sure that the mothers in our lives feel appreciated. It’s important, especially when the mother in question is your own wife. With Mother’s Day ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rapper/singer Lizzo recently quit a social media platform after a few instances of fat shaming and fatphobia comments made via Twitter. In what appears to be a short time, the artist has clearly reached superstar status to the ire of those who seem less successful. Lizzo was named Time ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The world is evolving on the behest of technology and traditional TV is among the many things that are being abandoned. Streaming and video-on-demand has become the new trend which viewers of all age groups and diverse demographics turning to various platforms like Amazon Prime and Netflix for entertainment. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We’re going to do a deep dive into an album I’ve mentioned at least three times when going into Black rock and heavy metal. On October 31, 1984, an all-Black Cleveland-based band released the self-title album Black Death. While the band had been around for seven years prior to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Menswear is currently an extremely interesting area of fashion. The way that men dress has slowly been getting brighter and bolder, with a wider range of colors being added to the mix over the past few seasons. Men’s fashion is becoming more adventurous and less stringent; old rules and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Director Ken Loach is a working-class hero. Hard to think of another filmmaker whose movies so vividly reflect the economic, societal and emotional challenges everyday people face. As they try to raise their families on low-paying wages and still maintain a grain of dignity and hope, he’s watching. Ricky ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mardi Gras season this year has been plagued with death, and injuries. Of course natives feel there is something underneath it all, the city is angry. Regardless of superstition and reasoning the city administration had to take immediate steps to try and ensure the safety of parade goers. There ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m never going to Bourbon St for carnival. I won’t be caught there for St Patrick’s Day either. There are somethings I have never seen, and I want to keep it that way. There are so many tourists in town for carnival that are of the mind that here ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mardi Gras day in New Orleans owes me nothing this year. It was a bittersweet journey back to one of my favorite memories with my father. He was the beginning of my understanding of Mardi Gras. He loved this season, marched the parades, took us to them as children, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) New Orleans is a place of serious superstition. Regardless of which faith one subscribes to the natives know bad things can happen here when the city is unsettled. All we have to do is find a pattern of activity for this belief to be confirmed. If doesn’t matter who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s a need to just relax and wind down from the day. It could’ve been a hard day or the day was just so slow that you might as well just chill and hope that nothing or no one disrupts it. Hip hop is the soundtrack to my downtime ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Steven Barnes should be a familiar name. In addition to his fantasy and sci-fi writing, he has also written television forThe Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, and Baywatch. With his wife sci-fi/horror writer and educator Tananarive Due and actor Blair Underwood, he wrote the Tennyson Hardwick series. My favorite ...