(ThyBlackMan.com) As a proud, card-carrying member of the Black Press for more than 25 years, I have grown to both love and abhor the arrival of February when America, perhaps in an act of penance, holds its annual “lovefest” known as Black History Month. As much as I long to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The revolutionary way in which we watch movies changed when Netflix launched its DVD delivery service, and again when it began its streaming network. The streaming service is known for original content and has stated that from 2017 onwards that it aims to produce original content and increase its ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The sun rises in the east, sets in the west, NBA player, LeBron James, is a hypocrite, Democrats continue to play Blacks for a fool, the Earth is round, and media appointed Black leaders continue to sell out Black people. Yada, yada, yada. These media appointed Blacks convinced many ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Call it what you will. But as the saying goes, “A rose called by any other name is still a rose.” Racism called by any other name is still racism. So, let’s step away from the naming, and try to find some common understanding based on facts and truths ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every other year it seems we are presented in the African American community and the world at large with a new unearthed chapter of our human origins by scientists working in the fields unearthing skull fragments and the lost tibias of some remote ancestor. Its commonly believed that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The jobs number coming out of the Labor Department, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was a surprising number, indeed; 467,000 jobs created in January. Think about this; $529 million a day of Consumer Demand (Spending) was removed from the economy, the $529 million a Day Consumer Tax Cut ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me start off by saying I hope that is not the case. Secondly, GOOD police officers are absolutely necessary to the safety and welfare of the public. Thirdly, there are many law-abiding police officers who risk their lives, do their duty and abide by their oath. They should ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By now you have heard what was forecast as the inevitable – all Senate Republicans and two Senate Democrats believe the Senate Filibuster Rule to be more significant than the right of millions of (actually all) Americans to participate in free and impartial elections. It stands clear that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Are we returning to normalcy? The word “normalcy,” as history buffs know, was used (but not invented) by our only journalist president, Warren G. Harding, to sum up his 1920 campaign. Normalcy was political shorthand for returning to normal times after a European war, prosecutions of peaceful protesters, sharp ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Jan. 20, Cheryl Hickmon, the national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., passed away. Delta Sigma Theta is part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council of the “Divine Nine” historically Black Greek letter institutions that for decades have produced a pipeline of community and political leadership. They are ...