(ThyBlackMan.com) The legal problems continue to mount for Bishop Eddie Long. In addition to the sexual misconduct case that has been featured in the media, there is another situation in which Long is accused of conspiring with investment adviser Ephren Taylor to defraud members of his church out of more than a million dollars in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Fannie Lou Hamer (pronounced hay-mer) was one of the unsung pillars of the civil rights movement in the U.S. She was a phenomenal woman—a woman of great determination and great purpose. She was not one to hold back her feelings, especially when fighting for equality. In 1964 she was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whether it is politics, the sports arena or general labor disputes, the analogy comparing modern labor disputes with the permanent stain of slavery just keep coming. The latest comparison was made by HBO’s Real Sports anchor Bryant Gumbel who said that NBA commissioner David Stern was some kind of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What does the word “minority” mean? Why do we call ourselves “minorities?” And why do Latinos and Asians also do the same? Minority means “less than 50%.” Majority means “more than 50%.” If whites are but 20% of the world’s population, how then can Blacks, Latinos, Asians and Native ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Travel through any metropolitan city like DC or Atlanta, and you are likely to see an assortment of luxury vehicles from Mercedes and BMWs to Bentleys and Maseratis most driven by African Americans. Even in some of the most distressed urban neighborhoods it is not uncommon to see high ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I watched curiously as Bryant Gumbel, host of “Real Sports,” referred to NBA Commissioner David Stern as a “modern day overseer.” The comments rocked the world, probably more so than anything Gumbel has ever said in the past. Based on Bryant Gumbel’s remarks over the years, I quietly suspect that beneath the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No other people in the world have the ugly history with a nation as African descendants with America. We were once property and instead of becoming truly free, we allowed ourselves to be duped into a game of make believe, pretending to be free, but having none of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The unemployment rate among African-American men will increase dramatically next month thanks to the NBA lockout, because the league and the players union have failed to renegotiate their agreement about the split of basketball revenues. The owners want a 50-50 split of profits on ticket sales, TV rights, souvenir and ...