(ThyBlackMan.com) Depression is a serious mental health condition–that much we all understand. It can be crippling, in terms of its debilitating effects on one’s emotional stability, interpersonal relationships, and productivity. It is a black cloud that envelops lives and makes it incredibly difficult to emerge from. In terms of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Snake Eyes is a welcomed opportunity to see a cast of talented Asian actors dazzle. Even in an action franchise film built around a Hasbro toy doll, they excel. The film is an extension of a franchise started in 2009 with G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, when an elite military ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It seems as if the people who are doing the most productive work in black communities across this great nation are never the ones on TV complaining about how systemically racist the United States of America is. Rather they are the folk of all races who see a problem ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If President Joseph Biden’s administration were considered a corporation, their key executives—Biden, Vice President Harris, and chief of staff Ron Klain would all be in jeopardy of going to jail. Biden has been president for more than six months now and he is in default of a declared dividend ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s nothing new about the term critical race theory. The term goes back almost four decades. Then, a handful of Black scholars and writers came up with the term to name what for decades had simply been called battling racism. The reaction at first was, well really, no reaction. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most repetitious yet bemusing moments that repeats itself in my courses occurs after I cover the indispensable contributions of Civil Rights attorney Charles Hamilton Houston’s fight for racial equality. Despite common misconceptions, Houston, not his protégé Thurgood Marshall, matters most mightily in the buildup to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Disputes over COVID treatments and mandates are indicative of where the country is today. Full of contradictions, hypocrisy, fear, anger and ignorance. Vaccine mandates for children have all but wiped out infectious diseases like measles and polio in the school-age population. Science works. Yet, because of spurious arguments and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Truthfully, I can’t pinpoint where my belief that self-conception is crucial to politico-economic allegiance began. It could be that politicized parents raised me. Maybe it was reading Marcus “Mosiah” Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois’ calls for Black folk to turn inward and take care of their own, or perhaps it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are only two teams left standing in the NBA as the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks play in the NBA Finals. Despite valiant efforts from the Clippers and Hawks, respectively, their players head into the off-season. Few professions in America get as long of a layoff from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine a world where workers have real power. In this world, workers are paid a living wage, are protected by a strong union, and wield enough political clout to ensure Congress passes pro-worker laws. Corporations can’t treat them like robots and abandon communities to find cheaper labor elsewhere. It is a ...