(ThyBlackMan.com) This month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its unemployment data for the month of May. The unemployment rate for the African American community went up from 16.1 percent to 16.2 percent. Black males, who already had the highest unemployment rate of any ethnic/gender category, saw their joblessness rise ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was April 4th, 1968 and a coward’s shot rang from the distance. The target: a brave man. It was a mild 90-degree’s on that day. If one searched, no breeze could be found from the east or the west nor the north or the south in Memphis, Tenn. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former Black Panther Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt died Thursday in Tanzania, according to his attorney. Pratt spent 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. He died at the age of 63, and authorities do not yet know his exact cause of death. “He could’ve been a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On June 1st Kathy Hochul (D-NY) was sworn in as the newest member of Congress. She won her seat in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Republican Chris Lee in New York’s 26th District, pulling off what many consider to be the biggest political upset since ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere in a U.S. prison today, a young Black man sits behind bars counting down the years, months and days till he sees freedom. After spending the better part of his adolescence locked away for cocaine distribution, he has become hardened and likely more dangerous while his White cellmate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many connotations in the media and society that still portray African-American women in a negative light. I believe that our race needs therapy. I remember when I was in an abusive relationship and I thought the man that I was with loved me. However, I came to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Meet the next target of the “all-regulation-is-bad” crowd: school lunches. Our children face a devastating obesity crisis — and yet some Washington lawmakers are calling even the most commonsense moves to ensure them a healthier diet a “classic nanny-state overreach.” Really? Let’s look at what these simple, straightforward federal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me say this up front. Homosexuality is a sin which has long been hated among Asians, Hispanics and African American communities. This is a FACT! Wait, there IS more! Take a stroll through any public school and you will hear male or female students coming down on their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is not about race. It is about a philosophy and agenda that is rather foreign to his predecessors. The thought resembles that of the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm who addressed a group of Black manufacturers with this: “I don’t give a damn about businesses. All I am concerned with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When AIDS was first detected 30 years ago, it was considered a White, gay man’s disease. In fact, it was known as GRID – gay-related immune deficiency. Although African-Americans represent only 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, Blacks now represent almost half of all new HIV infections and nearly ...