(ThyBlackMan.com) In early April of 1968, Baltimore was on fire literally and figuratively. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had just been assassinated. Profound sadness, anger, and disgust at the violent death of a man who championed social change exclusively through non-violent civil disobedience led to riots breaking out ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I rarely agree with my father, who is an orthopedic surgeon, but he made a lot of sense when he explained why many urban black neighborhoods have fallen into decay. He said the federal government’s desegregation of the U.S. population opened the floodgates for black attorneys, teachers, pharmacists, accountants, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Baltimore seems to be on fire and the sad reality is that the moral high ground that could have been had is lost. Freddie Gray was buried today. He lost his life while in Baltimore police custody due to a severed spine. That is all I know — and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “America leads the world in shocks.” Those immortal words were spoken by the late Gil Scott-Heron during the Nixon “H2O Gate” era. Forty years later, Black people lead the world in shocks. We are shocked every time a Black person gets killed or abused by a police officer; we ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) An inevitable race war is coming and you can choose a side or your color will choose it for you. It will not matter where you live, what you drive, how much you make or how many college degrees you have. Do I wish it to be so? No. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Am I homophobic? No, I don’t fear homosexuals. But I do deal with facts and the devastation that homosexuality is doing to our African American community, our families, our churches and our value system. Is this hate speech? No, it is freedom of speech – and freedom of speech ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In response to Michael Eric Dyson’s scathing take-down, West issued what must have been the shortest comment of his career – probably because Dyson was so thorough in his take-down that it didn’t leave West much room for a defense. But even what he did say was so delusional, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Assignment writing is one of the most challenging and toughest tasks that every single student faces during their education phase. Academic writing involves too much research and thorough knowledge of the topic. On the basis of this students get a chance to improve their grades. Writing an assignment is ...