(ThyBlackMan.com) During the course of a nationally-televised football game on September 14, 2014, the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick called Chicago Bears’ defensive end Lamarr Houston the n-word (n**ga). It was then that a referee (who happened to be white) penalized Kaepernick for use of the vitriolic; the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) SANKOFA: A West African word meaning to retrieve the past in order to live in the future. February, the nationally-recognized, officially-designated month to observe, celebrate, and praise much of Black America’s achievements and contributions to weaving the fabric of the American civilization has come and gone. It seems that ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) On the night of June 26, 2011, in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, James Craig Anderson, age 49 after being brutally beaten was ran over and killed by teen suspect Deryl Dedmon.  The beating apparently was premeditated by some white teens which escalated to the victim being run over. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In today’s contemporary times, perhaps it could be said that the n-word is just simply another racial slur or derogatory word.  But it is not the contemporary definition of the word which is so controversial; it’s the [historical] baggage that comes along with the word. And though the context ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Wake up everybody, no more sleeping in bed, no more BACKWARD thinking, time for thinking ahead…Wake up ALL the teachers, TIME to teach a new way.  …When you teach the children, teach them the very best you can. The world won’t get no better—if we just let it be…WE ...