(ThyBlackMan.com) This fall, millions of kids will return to school to resume their academic careers. Will they go back to school or back to the future? Will they lug backpacks of greatness or bags of low self-esteem? Will we only urge them to get good grades or push them to pursue ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The release by Wikileaks of a trove of emails from high-ranking Democratic Party officials has confirmed what many Americans – both progressive and conservative – have suspected throughout this election cycle: that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) actively conspired against Bernie Sanders in an attempt to ensure the nomination for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hillary Clinton on several occasions has done what could be called a mea culpa for hubby, Bill’s still much talked about and much maligned Omnibus Crime Bill that he spear-headed to Congress in 1994. Her most memorable about-face was in a speech in Harlem last February when she called ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Of all the kinds of business you can possibly get into, this has to be the one which is most worthwhile. The fact is, these are good times indeed for not-for-profit organisations. In the past decade or so, the amount of non-profits starting up has risen sharply. Of course, it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rebuked the North Carolina legislature for acting with “discriminatory intent” in passing restrictions on the right to vote that “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision.” The decision came as we celebrated the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “There are [Blacks] who are willing to worship the pyramids of 4,000 years ago but will not build pyramids in the present so their children may see what they left behind as well. We have a leadership who rallies the people to look at past glories but leave their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “‘Insourcing,’ as prison labor is often called, is an even cheaper alternative to outsourcing. Instead of sending labor over to China orBangladesh, manufacturers have chosen to forcibly employ the 2.4 million incarcerated people in the United States. Chances are high that if a product you’re holding says it is “American Made,” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A great deal has been made of the gratuitous appearance of Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen U.S. officer in Iraq, at the Democratic National Convention. Judging by what he had to say, Khan is either a stealth Islamist, or an actual, non-stealth Islamist, depending on how discerning one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A year ago, in August 2015, this column called “The Donald” the Democrats’ Trump card. It is hard to imagine any other Republican candidate who could rescue a thoroughly discredited Hillary Clinton from a devastating defeat in this year’s election. Now 50 prominent Republicans with foreign policy and national security ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent news, a rumor has been spiraling through the internet that two of America’s most lyrical rappers are on a collision course that may possibly alter the state of Hip-Hop. In one corner, there is the Canadian born rapper/singer who appears to have single- handedly redefined the rap culture ...