(ThyBlackMan.com) “While HBCUs today look quite different from the schools that were founded in the 1800s, HBCUs now find themselves in a continuing conversation on whether these institutions should exist in a post–Brown v. Board of Education and post-Obama environment. The relevancy of HBCUs has been the subject of academic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recent images of US Border Patrol Agents interacting with Haitian immigrants caused shock and stir when juxtaposed against images of Afghani refugees being shuttled onto waiting US military transport planes to he brought to the US and housed courtesy of the US government and taxpayers. The rationale is that these people need to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the best things about sports are the links between the past and the present. A major part of sports are the comparisons between players, teams, and coaches and those comparisons also are regards to the present and the past. 2021 Pro Football of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My good buddy, Winston Churchill once told me, “To every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work, unique to him and fitted to his talents; what a tragedy if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After a year of COVID, TIFF returned as a hybrid festival with in-person screenings in Toronto and digital screenings around the world. A fine selection of African Diaspora films, films with Black actors in their cast and general-release films brought the magic of TIFF alive again. Attica (***1/2) The 1971 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most important reasons to vote Donald Trump out of the White House was to stop him from packing our federal courts with even more anti-voting-rights, anti-equality, pro-corporate judges. Stopping the flood of bad Trump judges was a huge accomplishment for every organizer and voter who helped elect Joe ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The last thing you want to deal with as your business grows is a workplace accident or injury. Workplace accidents can result in not just bodily injury but also unnecessary stress and suffering. Workers compensation insurance generally covers injuries or illnesses caused accidentally or through exposure to the work ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Empty Vessels sounds like a cover band, in reality it’s something Rod Serling could narrate for an episode of the Twilight Zone. I would imagine it would go something like this: Picture. The portrait of a lost collection of misfits: Joe Biden, out-of-date, timeworn and a relic of the past, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Senate Major Leader Chuck Schumer angrily said the brutal treatment of Haitian asylum seekers defies common decency. A chorus of Democrats chimed in and called the Border Patrol horseback riding whipping and assaulting of the Haitians much worse. All demanded that the Biden Administration cease and desist the deportation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have to get this off my chest. Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee released its proposed tax increases to fund President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social policy plan. Here’s the big thing that hit me: Democrats didn’t go after the huge accumulations of wealth at the top ...