(ThyBlackMan.com) The Way to Wear Your Hair There are so many ways that you can wear your hair nowadays that the options are truly endless. If you want to get a straight chic style without damaging her hair, you do well to look into a sew in wig. Wigs can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An article in Politico got a lot of buzz in Washington, D.C., by reporting that Sen. Kamala Harris might not be a very strong front-runner, or even a front-runner at all, in the Democratic vice presidential selection race. Politico reported that 76-year-old former Sen. Chris Dodd, a member of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Hitler had his Brown shirts and Mussolini had his Black shirts, now Donald Trump has his camouflage shirts.” Thus began a statement signed by 15 distinguished interdenominational religious leaders in Chicago that I joined, including ministers, priests, and rabbis. Comparisons to Hitler are always explosive, but the comparison is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in 2009, Nancy Pelosi infamously declared the best way to revive the economy was to dole out ever-more-generous food stamps and unemployment benefits. The more people collecting welfare, the better. At the time, this notion seemed laughable. Now this economic illiteracy seems to have become conventional wisdom. This ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congressman John Robert Lewis was just 17 when he reached out to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a letter conveying his desire to attend all-white Troy State College (now Troy State University) that was just ten miles from his home. Lewis submitted an application but never heard from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From my youth, I can remember many of the elders lamenting that death comes in threes. In fact, when a community suffered the deaths of two elders, most of the others would walk and talk gingerly in wonderment of who would be next. Although rooted in superstition, the idea ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congressman John Lewis understood that human suffering often ignites the human heart, a phenomenon experienced globally recently as George Floyd’s suffering spurs an awakening to the racism around us. As a young freedom fighter, Congressman Lewis suffered a brutal beating and a fractured skull at the hands of law-enforcement ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since social media has become such an important part of American life in the last decade, it plays a role in how people present their views and perspectives on numerous things. Depending on what a person shares on their social media, it is a brief glimpse into their mindset, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) North Carolina-based film company Speller Street Films has launched a 30 day crowdfunding campaign on Seed&Spark to raise $30,000 to finish principal photography on its latest documentary, WILMINGTON ON FIRE: CHAPTER II, directed and produced by award-winning filmmaker Christopher Everett. As the spotlight sits on the city of Wilmington, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the hit musical Hamilton there’s a song called, “The World Turned Upside Down.” That’s a bit how the last one hundred or so days have felt. The pandemic has seemingly changed everything about the way things were, and we have yet to determine what the new normal will ...