(ThyBlackMan.com) Hear ye, hear ye, United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died and has been memorialized.  However, all is not lost because his protégé, man Friday and gopher, fellow Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who seems to have been legally and judicially deaf and dumb for the last ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I have repeatedly heard many of the talking heads in Washington, D.C. and the Republican establishment accuses Donald Trump and his presidential campaign of engaging in a hostile takeover of the Republican Party. I agree with them. Having received my undergraduate degree from Oral Roberts University in tax accounting, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This article was meant to be fun, but underneath the fun, there’s always something serious.  However, as I mulled over the ways we are trained to waste our money and then complain that we don’t have any, I thought about this list. So, here are 15 ways to know ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Time Inc.’s, ESSENCE Festival New Orleans announces its star-studded daytime lineup for the signature event’s ESSENCE Empowerment Experience Stage, taking place Fourth of July Weekend, July 1–3, 2016, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA. Free and open to the public, the ESSENCE Empowerment Experience ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My 87 year old black preacher dad phoned me from Baltimore Maryland at my home in Florida. Dad spent the day at a conference for Baltimore City Fire Dept chaplains. Dad chuckled that he received a round of applause at the conference for being the oldest active chaplain in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sen. Bernie Sanders doesn’t get race! He gets economics, he gets Wall Street, he gets trade, and he gets distribution. He just doesn’t get race. Perhaps one of his lowest moments in this campaign happened about a month ago (Feb. 13) in Minneapolis. A woman asked him to directly ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) History is the most important part of Human Development for it defines who we become as a people and also help us prepare for the future challenges. In Rwanda,each regime has tried everything within its powers to suppress the achievements of the previous regime and this has mostly been ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It was one for the books. The sight of an African-American viciously assaulting a Trump protester at his Tucson campaign rally. The sight drew gasps and lots of expressions of puzzlement and disbelief. The assault came a few weeks after Trump’s photo-op meeting with some black ministers. He has ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Nonstop Aiding and Abetting in Corrupt Practices” While Black people are bogged down in shallow and meaningless political discourse, our vaunted Black organizations continue to be M.I.A. except for their time in front of the cameras with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. They say they cannot endorse candidates, but ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As Barack Obama’s presidency counts down its last months, amid the raucous babble of the Republican presidential debate, people are beginning to realize how much we will miss Obama’s leadership. He has served with dignity and grace, increasingly rare attributes in American politics. His family has exhibited the values ...