(ThyBlackMan.com) If the local bookie, Al Capone or Meyer Lansky wanted to stay in control in perpetuity, a bill like HR 1 would have done them justice. Just replace the words voting or the vote with gambling or betting or bets, and they would be living large. Encapsulated in 791 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Almost certainly Meghan Markle had to know the moment she became the Jackie Robinson of British royalty; she’d always be a target. But at first there seemed to be a bit of naivety if not on her part about the backlash of racism she’d be hammered with, but on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we watched the sausage being made, as I and many of you have over the last several weeks, when it comes to what goes into spending $1.9 trillion and the enormity of the economic disaster in this country, some of us come away shaking our heads, shocked and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are at about the halfway point of the 72 game 2020-21 NBA season. Like most sports since March 2020, the NBA has had to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic. The protocols, testing, and the relative lack of fans at NBA arenas are some of the differences between this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is very difficult for me to understand how inefficient the knowledge base of a sizeable corpus of individuals in the generations after mine have, as it pertains to history. No more astonishing a content area is this evident is with regards to American political history, in particular history of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Thursday, in its first military action, the Biden Pentagon sent two U.S. F-15Es to strike targets of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia just inside the eastern border of Syria. The U.S. strikes were in retaliation for a missile attack on a U.S. base in Irbil, capital of Iraqi ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the 19th century, the German “Brothers Grimm” together collected folklore, publishing it in the form of children’s fairy tales. During the 21st century, we have witnessed the “Brothers Grim” – Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, and Chris Cuomo, a CNN journalist hosting his own television show ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 2020 was a strange and painful year for all Americans – no need to rehash the obvious. The real question is where do we go from here? I contend that 2021 is a do or die year for Black economic progress. Organizations have been compelled, unlike ever before, to ...