(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the biggest problems that we have in the Black community is how we allow ourselves to be portrayed in the media. There tends to be a blanket profiling of Black people by the media as little more than dysfunctional hood rats with a few functional Black people sprinkled in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been fortunate to be married for 24 years to an extraordinary Jamaican woman named Angela. She’s done a phenomenal job raising our two daughters, Aubrey and Austen, and over the past two years has been exceptional in counseling and mentoring our Chinese exchange student, Wangying Lin. So perhaps ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here we are again. Black History Month. Or, as I like to call it: a farce. To be clear, African Americans in the United States have not made the “substantive progress” that is spouted left and right. In fact, at least in the business world, we have gone backward. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama served notice in his State of the Union speech that he intends to make 2014 a year of action on his “opportunity agenda” for all the people of the U.S. For millions of black Americans and others who yearn for a better quality of life, it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Craig Hodges never made an NBA All-Star team, but during the early 1990s he captured the attention of the basketball world by winning the three-point competition three consecutive years (1990-92) during the league’s celebrated All-Star Weekend. Playing in an era where talented sharp shooters like Reggie Miller, Glen Rice, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Who is Yeshua (Jesus)? Most of mankind does not know. Yehovah gave up His Supreme Spirit existence for mankind, in order to become Yeshua (John 3:16, 1 Timothy 3:16). Yeshua was Melchizedek (John 8:56). As Yehovah, He appeared before Abraham, and Isaac, (Genesis 17:1, 18:1), and spoke directly to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Barely over a month into 2014, Terrell Owens’ messy situation has crossed over into the new year. Despite having a very big fall in the eye of the public, Terrell has continued to fight for happiness. He married Rachel Snider in a small courthouse ceremony on January 23. Surprisingly, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I guess I’m going to have to retrace my steps, yet again. Last week I reprise an article on Zionism (Maybe I’m Dumb, but Could Somebody Please Tell Me the Difference Between Zionism and Racism?). Due to a response to the article by a young Black man the first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent New York Times article, Hard Times at Howard, written by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, was indeed riveting and definitely an attention grabber. It conjured up memories of October 15, 2003, when I sat in a Winston-Salem, North Carolina sanctuary and listened as forty Black church leaders and Black college ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The trial of Michael Dunn was considered to be the second-coming of the George Zimmerman trial. In both cases, a young black male was shot by an overzealous man who somehow felt that he could get away with murder. Also, in both cases, there is more than enough evidence ...