(ThyBlackMan.com) It is very easy to get discouraged in the world we live in. Hate seems to be at an all-time high, and it we are reminded of the history we thought had ended. We do not live in a post-racial society, and there is a high chance we never will. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before the $1.1 billion Porto de Caio came to northwest Angola, Pedro Cardoso had a wife and a son, but no job and little hope. The family got by only on what Cardoso’s father gave him. His story is achingly familiar in the impoverished Cabinda province. But now, thanks to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An excellent example of the impact our history has on the way we are today, especially economically, can be found in an article titled, The Reluctant Entrepreneurs, by Joel Kotkin, author of the book, Tribes. The feature discusses several reasons for Blacks not going into business and being surpassed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A few days ago, The Montgomery Advertiser aka The Advertiser wrote a very nasty, slanderous article entitled “OUR VIEW: Hold urban parents accountable for gun violence, too“. And the title of the article greatly disgusted and offended me personally because the colonial media including The Montgomery Advertiser has a history ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The views expressed in this commentary are those of the writer and is not a rebuff of the ministry and its practitioners. Nevertheless, if the pulpit robe fits, then wear it! One morning while viewing a church conference broadcast, I listened as the minister explained to the congregation, the Benefits of Humility. He stated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In today’s digital society HBCUs or what is known as Historically Black College and University students cannot allow others to Brand them. No one should be allowed to take their voice nd use it against them or describe them. There are billions of people on the planet, each person from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Trump is criticized from all sides for sparing with fake news media via tweets. Some say Trump’s tweets are a distraction from getting out his message. The truth is fake news media are relentlessly 24/7 distorting and misrepresenting Trump’s agenda and message. Tweeting is Donald Trump’s direct line to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The White House judges nominees on the merits of their character and not on the clients they once represented as counsel.” This was the terse statement that #45 Trump issued in defense of the instant and loud criticism of his pick, Eric Dreiband to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The only time I can remember TIME moving as slowly as it has during the past six months was when I was eight and had to wait an entire year between Christmases. True or not, it feels like the Trump Administration has slowed the progress of time and assigned ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) PBS NewsHour aired a story last year about Milwaukee, saying many residents call the city “the worst place to be a black man in America.” It talked about last year’s riots in the city after a cop shot a black man. One black Milwaukee resident explained that this is ...