(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week I wrote a column about the deplorable behavior of Sha’Carri Richardson, who holds herself out as a professional track sprinter. She is more like an entertainer, er I mean “sin-ertainer” who thinks she runs track, but I digress. Click on the above link to read last week’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2022 American Black Film Festival featured in-theater screenings and a virtual component too. Issa Rae (Insecure) reigned as the festival ambassador and introduced her new HBO Max series “Rap Sh!t.” Crowds watched feature films, docs and shorts and participated in talk events, networking and of course partied hard. To stay ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With prominent Democrats – Hillary Clinton, Gavin Newsom, Amy Klobuchar – openly jousting for the Democratic 2024 presidential nod, it seems a little bit suspicious that the Dems are not promoting their most formidable candidate, Michelle Obama. Suspicious, that is, to everyone but Los Angeles filmmaker Joel Gilbert, producer ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The second Amendment of the United States constitution is the right of all American citizens regardless of race, creed, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation with the exception of those convicted of certain crimes and those with felonies and or certain misdemeanors. In short, the 2nd Amendment is the right ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Art Woodruff was appointed Mayor, in July of 2020 by the Sanford City Commission to take the place of the elected Mayor Jeff Triplett, who stepped down after serving as mayor, since January 2011 to run for another office, no one could have predicted at that moment, at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As soon as the Supreme Court announced its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a decision that allowed states, not the federal government to legislate women’s bodily autonomy and right to choose, those who support abortion rights took it to the streets. They gathered with an enthusiasm ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “46 Day after day they met in the temple [area] continuing with one mind, and breaking bread in various private homes. They were eating their meals together with joy and generous hearts.” -Acts 2:46 The way we “do church” dramatically changed forever when 2020 ushered in a global pandemic. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This year at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, audiences listened to filmmakers as they told their vibrant stories in their own words. Allswell (**1/2) Three Brooklyn Latinx bond in this very charming family comedy drama. Screenwriters Elizabeth Rodriguez and Bob Snyder set the stage, and Snyder as the director pushes and pulls the characters around ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I will begin by stating that I am a senior citizen journalist/amateur historian who, during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, had memorable experiences of attending at least two or more concerts featuring some of the most inspiring and brilliant Black artists of the twentieth century. As a journalist, I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you ever wonder whether elections really matter? Well, the Trump Supreme Court majority has answered that question for good. Or, more accurately, they have answered it for bad. In the term that has just ended, the new far right-wing majority on the Supreme Court went on a rampage. They ...