(ThyBlackMan.com) Pepsi Beverages (Pepsi), formerly known as Pepsi Bottling Group, has agreed to pay $3.13 million and provide job offers and training to resolve a charge of race discrimination filed in the Minneapolis Area Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The monetary settlement will primarily be divided ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the next few days people all over the nation will celebrate civil rights icon, Martin Luther King, Jr. Folks will attend luncheons, lectures and interfaith services. They’ll clean schools, paint walls and feed the homeless, but go right back to business as usual after the feel good “day ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was only a matter of time before the enshrined celebrity tabloid obsession would ensnare the Obama family. They have been ripe for the pickings of a media that for the past two decades has successfully parlayed gossip, innuendo, rumor, half-truths and outright lies into a hugely profitable growth ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A political action committee for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is facing scrutiny. Politico reports that the political action committee Endorse Liberty, which is supporting Ron Paul, has used a federal campaign finance loophole to avoid disclosing its donors until the end of the month. “Endorse Liberty, which is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have a GREAT idea! How about a TV show titled, “All-American Christian”? Christians have been getting a bum rap in cinema and the mainstream media for quite a while. In a spirit of fairness, compassion and tolerance, a TV show promoting Christianity is simply the right thing to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To be Black in the United States is and of itself a complex route in life to navigate. To be Black and female in the United States is not only complex, but it is a route in life much more rugged with uncut terrain. The road of Black Womanhood ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s an unlikely duo for rap beef: Common and Drake. A guy once known for wearing crocheted pants versus America’s most successful emo-rapper. And yet, somehow against the odds, Common has pinned Drake in his cross-hairs as a fortuitous enemy to hip-hop at-large, taking shots at the Canadian rapper ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With all political attention focused on the Republican Presidential race or the recent holiday season, President Barack Obama under the cloak of little attention signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on New Year’s Eve. This is not your basic run of the mill law and was ...