(ThyBlackMan.com) When you think great winners in basketball some names automatically come to mind: Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Larry Bird. How about Mario Chalmers, starting point guard for the 2011-’12 NBA champion Miami Heat? Not exactly who you had in mind huh? Last night Mr. Chalmers joined an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As, I reflected on the celebration of Father’s Day last Sunday, I thought about what that day should really mean. But, before I could do that, I had to find out where that day came from. Father’s Day was a direct derivative of Mother’s Day; but the reason for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Attorney General Eric Holder hang tough and ignore Florida Senator Marco Rubio and the soon to be drumbeat of other Republicans sniffing your blood that will call for your resignation. He’s done nothing wrong. He has turned over thousands of documents to the political witch hunting chair of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been a Black man for quite a while now. It’s been a fun ride, with its ups and downs, but I have to say that in this journey, where half the world is working to secure your extinction, you realize that your ability to think and make critical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Whites only”…. “Colored”…. “No colored allowed”…. These words remind us a very ugly time in American history. A time of separate and unequal State sponsored fascism and racism. We all know about the history of Jim Crow, its demonic legacies; and the horrible results of its policies. For Black-Americans; ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Joe Williams a reporter for Politico.com, has been suspended for making comments about presidential candidate Mitt Romney that the company deems to be racially-offensive. During an appearance on the show hosted by Martin Bashir, Williams said this: It’s very interesting that he does so many appearances on Fox & ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By mid summer NBA fans from all over the world will have to find a new bad guy to jeer because Lebron James, like it or not, will be a league champion. The Miami Heat are up three games to one over the Oklahoma City Thunder and as every ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in Chevez Ravine on April 18, 1958, nineteen years before I was born in Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, Brooklyn. That being said I have never actually had a “hometown team” to follow. Growing up in New York City I had ...