(ThyBlackMan.com) After a phenomenal election last November in which Republicans increased their margins in the House and took control of the Senate, the expectation was that congressional Republicans would prove to the country that they could lead like mature adults. But as the adage goes, “they never miss an opportunity ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What a raucous, topsy-turvy, heart-wrenching, angry year we experienced in 2014. We had everything from the sadness of lives lost on airplanes and ferry boats, to the anger of Black men being killed and Black women being beaten by police officers, to the elation of a record-breaking stock market and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This past weekend, thousands of New York City police officers turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio at the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos at Christ Tabernacle in Glendale, New York. It is now widely known that Officer Ramos saw his work in the NYPD as his ministry. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The year 2014 was a special one, mainly because we had a chance to see the world change right before our very eyes. Activism was only for nerds and outcasts just a year ago, and suddenly it became popular. Now, when I speak on college campuses, I no longer ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While scrolling through Instagram many weeks ago, a photo of the popular fragment design x Air Jordan 1 Retro Hi caught my attention. As I routinely do, I jumped straight to the comments to see what people were saying about Hiroshi Fujiwara’s rendition of the retro basketball sneaker. After sifting through all the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The late, great comedian Richard Pryor had many sayings I found to be completely hilarious. Naturally, the vast majority of those sayings could not be printed in a family newspaper such as this one. There remains, however, one clean phrase of his I have laughed at repeatedly for decades. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Friends, “What is it finally time for you to do?” It’s a great question for the beginning of the year. Perhaps there is something you’ve been talking about doing, thinking about doing, even daydreaming about doing. And in 2015, it’s time to make a move! A few years ...