(ThyBlackMan.com) “They want to hear you sing,” says Rev. C.L. Franklin (Forest Whitaker) to his 10-year-old daughter Aretha (Skye Dakota Turner). And she did. Eventually singing herself into 25 Grammys, a posthumously awarded Pulitzer Prize Special Citation and the history books. How Franklin became the Queen of Soul and loved by millions is the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was a scandal, a disgusting scandal that swept through Major League Baseball (MLB) over the weekend – some horrible, horrible, probably Republican voting, definitely Trump supporting monster started screaming the N-word at a black player in the 9th inning of the Colorado Rockies vs. Miami Marlins game. What ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tuvalu is a tiny Polynesian island nation located midway between Hawaii and Australia. Home to just 11,000 people, it is just 10 square miles. It is smaller today than it was a decade ago. Thanks to world climate change, Tuvalu is sinking, and the evidence is everywhere. I’d never ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It will be a special weekend at the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Class of 2020 had to wait until this year to give their enshrinement speeches. That postponement means that this weekend will have the most Pro Football Hall of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whatever its origin – natural or lab leak – SARS-CoV-2 made its way around the world. A novel coronavirus, it had never appeared in humans before and therefore science and medicine knew little to nothing about how it spread or how to treat it. Remember how we wiped everything ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The global-capitalist ruling establishment is implementing a new, more openly totalitarian structure of society and method of rule. They are revoking our constitutional and human rights, transferring power out of sovereign governments and democratic institutions into unaccountable global entities that have no allegiance to any nation or its people. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Wake up everybody! While it’s a great time for us to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the horrific “Black Wall Street” massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma we must look forward. I can’t tell you how angry I am that this part of our nation’s history was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I write this as an infectious disease scientist and not as an American or black man. For nearly two decades, I was a research scientist and on faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. My peers and colleagues consider me more than reputable in my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Black Men, Greetings Gents. I hope this letter finds you in good health. I’m doing fine. Thanks for asking. I recently had my hair braided for the first time. Besides the pain and itching; I’m enjoying the style. I did notice that I have more grey hairs than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s been six months since the Biden-Harris administration began, ushering in an era of hope after four bitter and disheartening years. We have much to celebrate. At the same time, there are ways in which our future is wavering on a knife’s edge: will we fulfill the promise of ...