(ThyBlackMan.com) Permit me please to paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi. First they oppose you. Then they ridicule you. Then they ignore you. Then you win. This has been the 85-plus year history of the Nation of Islam in North America. First established on July 4, 1930, in the Heavenly Valley neighborhood of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Oh yes, those were troubled times during the decades of the 1960’s and 1970’s. When Beyoncé gave tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the start of the Black Panther Movement, I thought, “She doesn’t know what she is celebrating.” A look back at the years of the Black Panthers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I saw it on Facebook. These two Black women at a Trump rally expressing their support for “The Donald.” I realized, once again, that there is a certain type of emotional naiveté that I possess when it comes to our people. I assume that in light of the history ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Women entrepreneurs have a powerful role model when they consider Madam C.J. Walker. One of our nation’s first female self-made millionaires, her story of combining herbs to develop and manufacture a hair pomade, of empowering tens of thousands of women as sales agents for her products, and of establishing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Put two people in the same set of adversarial circumstances and you will likely get two very different responses to their environment. One person will likely think in dire terms while the other will think optimistically. Why? Neuroscience is now confirming what we’ve suspected for quite some time: The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m black and burn deep in my heart for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and here’s why other people of color should also kindle the “Bern.” Sanders, who just experienced a major win in Michigan, is a credible and tireless crusader against wealth and income inequality and other social justice ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No one wants to be defined by their past. We don’t like to live in the shadow of the mistakes we’ve made…regardless of why we made them. This is all understandable, but some people are delusional regarding their past. Karrine Steffans may need a reality check before she referred ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Claude Frederic Bastiat (1801-50) — a French classical liberal theorist, political economist and member of the French National Assembly — wrote an influential essay titled “That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen.” Bastiat argued that when making laws or economic decisions, it is imperative that we ...