(ThyBlackMan.com) No one knows for sure. But a few things seem clear. This is how it began. By 1400, the Christians of Europe had been fighting the forces of Islam for centuries, in a series of wars called Crusades. The Prophet Muhammad lived in the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century AD. Towards the end of his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, I had a heated (and somewhat friendly) debate with Melissa Harris-Perry and Rev. Al Sharpton. Both Harris-Perry and Rev. Sharpton seemed to take issue with an article I wrote openly questioning the motivations behind Melissa’s attacks on Cornel West. Melissa was a professor at Princeton alongside West, during which I assume ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The MC/DJ duo is nothing new in Hip-Hop music. The DJ has evolved from the position of skilled disc spinner to the position of producer. The MC/DJ combo of the now is the MC/Producer. This formula has worked to success several times over in the history of the music ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Barack Obama was pondering a run for the presidency Michelle asked him what he thought he could accomplish. He replied,“The day I take the oath of office, the world will look at us differently. And millions of kids across this country will look at themselves differently. That alone ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) May 25 will be a bittersweet day across America. On that day, after a quarter century of unparalleled excellence and out-of-this-world success, Oprah is closing down “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” TV’s top-rated talk show year after year after year. Hers is a truly remarkable and thoroughly American story, a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A recent Gallup poll found that 47 percent of all Americans oppose raising the debt ceiling. Only 19 percent support raising the ceiling past its current $12.1 trillion dollar limit. The remainder of us say we don’t know enough about the debt ceiling to have an opinion. That’s part of our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If Newt Gingrich was planning to send GOP voters a message that he’s a different kind of politician who won’t just say anything to get elected, he did a horrible job of driving that point home this week. After making a so-called verbal gaffe on NBC’s “Meet the Press” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bible instructs us to “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” –Proverbs 22:6 Now this does not mean that a child will not make mistakes, it simply means that when you lay a foundation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What GOP presidential contender Herman Cain lacks in political experience, he likes to say, he makes up for with decades’ worth of success in corporate America. He climbed the corporate ladder at the Pillsbury Company, chaired the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and rescued the failing Godfather’s Pizza ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I believe that one of the most powerful men in the Bible had to have been the Apostle Paul. He had endured much, experienced much, and yet felt the need to mentor a young man by the name of Timothy. I am very partial to Timothy because I believe ...