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10 Hip Hop Albums to Listen to From 2020.

December 31, 2020 by  
Filed under Ent., Music, News, Opinion, Weekly Columns

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s get into ten albums to listen to from 2020. All ten are albums that got me through 2020 and also got multiple listens. Did you check out any of these this year? Open Mike Eagle – Anime, Trauma and Divorce Here’s an album that released in October and that totally wasn’t on my radar before. For me, alternative hip... [Read more...]

Barack Obama can’t resist Donald Trump’s authorship challenge.

December 31, 2020 by  
Filed under Opinion, Politics, Weekly Columns

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie begins her New York Times review of “A Promised Land” with this sentence, “Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come.” This was, I am sure, music to Obama’s ears. As one commenter on the Washington Post review deadpanned, “Obama may have been the first president,... [Read more...]

Donald Trump Blames Everyone but Himself for His Defeat.

December 30, 2020 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s presidency provided a rich trove of examples for my annual review of the year’s highlights in blame-shifting. The 2020 edition focuses on the question Trump has been trying to answer for nearly two months: Why did he lose the presidential election? By Trump’s account, it was not because voters... [Read more...]

President Elect Joe Biden Has No Mandate.

December 30, 2020 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) If Joe Biden is sworn in as president of the United States in January, many Democrats and their friends in the liberal media will instantly claim that he has a mandate. They will be mistaken. Joe Biden does not have a mandate to effect change, and no amount of complaining from the professional left will change this fact. The... [Read more...]

A guide to cataracts.

December 30, 2020 by  
Filed under Health, Opinion, Weekly Columns

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Is your vision blurred or cloudy? Do you find it difficult to see in dim or bright light, with very bright light uncomfortable to look at? Do you see circles of light around bright lights such as streetlights and car headlights? If so, you might have developed cataracts in one or both of your eyes. The word might sound scary... [Read more...]

Post COVID-19 Recovery: Places to Travel to Find Your Lost Self.

December 30, 2020 by  
Filed under Opinion, Travel/Leisure, Weekly Columns

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) We are living in weird times. Everything seems like a science fiction movie. An alien force has invaded our planet, no one is safe, and everyone is forced to live in their homes. Yes, I am talking about the time we are living amidst COVID-19 havoc. Now things are becoming normal (I wonder if we can call them normal!). But thinking... [Read more...]

Movie Review; Sylvie’s Love.

December 29, 2020 by  
Filed under Ent., Music, News, Opinion, Weekly Columns

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) It’s love at first sight. That’s true for the couple in this romantic period film and for audiences who will be transfixed by the stunningly beautiful footage. It’s the summer of ’57. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), a twentysomething, works in her dad’s (Lance Reddick, John Wick) small Harlem shop, Mr. Jay’s Records. Though... [Read more...]

Politics; Inadequate Covid-19 Relief Passed By Congress Akin To “Sending Firefighters In To Clear Up Embers”.

December 29, 2020 by  
Filed under Business, Health, Money, News, Opinion, Politics, Weekly Columns

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) “I wish they would put themselves — the White House and Congress and everybody else making these decisions — in the shoes of us, the normal working people, who need help due to no fault of our own. I’m asking to be able to keep my apartment. To be able to live, and not live on the street. I’m not asking to be put in... [Read more...]

President Donald Trump, you must win now, 2024 is too late for America.

December 29, 2020 by  
Filed under Opinion, Politics, Weekly Columns

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) I have the most important Christmas message ever for President Donald Trump. I’m one of the few who can deliver this message. I understand the man. I appreciate the man. Even the liberal media have described me as President Trump’s fiercest champion since the day he came down that escalator in June 2015. The liberal... [Read more...]

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Ignore Your Mental Health.

December 29, 2020 by  
Filed under Health, Opinion, Weekly Columns

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Ashamed, embarrassed, and too afraid to speak about it? Now is the best time for you to be vocal about your mental health. Keep in mind, if you continue to ignore it, it will negatively influence your physical health. There was a time when people were too afraid to come out of the closet to raise their opinions about mental health... [Read more...]

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