(ThyBlackMan.com) People often romanticize the 38-year marriage of Nelson and Winnie Mandela. The thought of a strong woman waiting 27 years for her husband’s release sends shivers down the spine. But sometimes those shivers are met with a dose of hard, cold reality. One overwhelming truth is that Nelson Mandela ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Gaining weight is probably a rare consideration for most, but there are people out there who struggle with their weight and not in losing it, but gaining it. It isn’t as simple as one might think. Gaining weight, while optimizing health is huge obstacle within itself. You could try downing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Because the Negro does not own and control retail establishments in his own community, he is unable to stabilize his community…The Negro must pool his capital in order to help himself….This will enable him to solve his own problems.” S.B. Fuller Has the thought ever occurred to you that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The race is literally on, race that is as in election campaign race, by a growing pack of Democrats to duck President Obama. In fact it’s gotten almost embarrassing more so to the fainthearted Democrats than Obama. How else can it be put when several Democratic Senators flatly tell ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Independent Author, Peer Coach and Inspirational Speaker, Sheila L. Agnew released her second non-fiction book, Dear ______, Are Your Missing Your Calling? In the book, Sheila uses the invitation as a metaphor to encourage readers to chronicle their most significant and important life events whether joyful or painful to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before we begin, let’s talk about what “slavery” actually is. We know historical slavery as a brutal, violent institution that left people consistent dehumanized. Almost nothing today compares to what our ancestors experienced, except perhaps, the brutality of the prison industrial complex. But freedom and slavery are not dichotomous ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For many African American football fans, Russell Wilson’s sterling performance in last Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVIII conjured memories of Doug Williams’ historic triumph in Super Bowl XXII. Twenty-six years after Williams’ most valuable player effort lifted the Washington Redskins over the Denver Broncos, Wilson led the Seattle Seahawks in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the police said they were looking for Hoffman’s drug dealer laughed because they know damm he was the drug dealer. He bought, used, gave and sold to all his high profile friends. That’s why they found a sh*tload of drugs around him. Then they drudge up four of his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I just read a snippet from an old article in Essence Magazine indicating that researchers have uncovered new information suggesting that Cleopatra may not have been Black. The article brought back to mind a piece I read by Earl Ofari Hutchinson many years ago entitled, Whose Black History To Believe? In that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” So said metaphysical poet John Dunne. “I actually was the guy working the cones… You are not really serious.” So said Governor Christie during a press conference early last December. Port Authority officials and Mr. Christie’s office declined ...