(ThyBlackMan.com) One Hundred and forty two years ago, The 15th Amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870. This amendment established “The right of U.S. citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson, who may be seeking to run on the Libertarian ticket, appeared on MSNBC where he reminded viewers over the weekend that in 1996 Newt Gingrich introduced the “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act.” The reported front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich, wanted to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been checking out the different posts related to men on different sites around the Internet. And I’ve read some good, interesting stuff. But there’s one thing that’s bothering me about dudes I keep running across; not just on on-line, but even out in the streets. Brothers, you need ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black voters will again give President Obama a sky high percentage of their vote in 2012. That was never in doubt. What is in doubt is how many will make up that percentage. It is the number, not percentage of black voters that turn out that will again ease ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Piri Thomas was born in 1928, in the El Barrio of Spanish Harlem. He was an accomplished poet, author, youth counselor, and speaker. The poet didn’t have an easy life and decided to change his name from Juan Pedro Thomas after living his entire young adulthood in prison. In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The most challenging issue facing Black Americans today is our lack of unity. The lack of unity that exists among African Americans undermines our ability to progress politically, socially and economically. The Black Americans that “blew up the most” over past decades typify the fact that the mass of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have written a number of articles relating to men and the many issues they are confronted with. I recently wrote Black Father and Daughter Dance here at Thy Black Man, which expressed the significance of the father daughter wedding dance in a woman’s life. Men stepping up to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Time Magazine just released their top pick for Person of the Year – the Protester. OK…but along with that, came their list of People Who Mattered in 2011 – among them Casey Anthony and Warren Buffet…Mmmm. Here’s what I say: Occupy Wallstreet Arguably, Occupy Wallstreet has been one of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are the world. We come in every shade under the sun and then some. And we are one. We are black haired. We are brown haired. We are red haired. We are blond. We are dark and potent as the night. And we are as light as any ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before his untimely passing, Michael Jackson notoriously dressed his children like they were always headed to a costume ball. It was his way of shielding his three kids from the press and various pariahs of the world. However, with the King of Pop gone Prince Michael, Paris, and Blanket ...