(ThyBlackMan.com) I was trying to ignore this because, quite frankly, it’s stupid. But my colleague Deron Snyder at the online publication The Root convinced me otherwise. By “this,” I am talking about the comments by Philadelphia boxer Bernard Hopkins about pro football quarterback Donovan McNabb, who played in Philadelphia for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whatever you plan to do today (May 16), make sure you are home in front of the television or have set your recorder to tape Freedom Riders, the excellent PBS documentary by filmmaker Stanley Nelson. And make sure children, related or unrelated, watch the documentary with you. For nearly two ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What next for The Donald Trump? His headline-making announcement that he’d seek the GOP nomination for the 2012 presidential race, distinguished by an obsessive insistence on seeing President Barack Obama’s original birth certificate to establish American citizenship increased the ratings for his NBC reality show, Celebrity Apprentice, and provided ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most of black America knows about CNN anchor Don Lemon. He’s 45-years old, but doesn’t look older than 35. He has a great deal of experience as a seasoned journalist, working on stations in Philadelphia and New York for several years. Now he’s a regular face on CNN, giving ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In this era where marriage as it was once established in biblical and cultural terms is constantly being challenged, black women have emerged as the underdog in the hopes and dreams of ever getting married. Though divorce statistics are extremely high and marriage is plummeting in general, the challenge ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of black against white, or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.” — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul still wages war against civil rights. And we really shouldn’t be surprised since Paul has repeatedly got into hot water nearly every time he opens his mouth about anything that remotely touches on race. But this time Paul sailed past the outer limits with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was on the radio this morning with Rev. Jesse Jackson. Other guests on the show included Dr. Marc Lamont Hill of Columbia University, Ohio State University professor and criminal justice expert Michelle Alexander, Tavis Smiley, and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Emanuel Cleaver, among others. The topic of conversation, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At the signing of the historic Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965 striking down the discriminatory practices many states had put in place to prohibit Blacks from exercising their right to vote, President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Republican Party is often referred to as the GOP (Grand Old Party). Established in 1854, this party has grown to build a reputation as one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. With a dedicated platform reflecting American conservatism, the GOP has been considered ...