(ThyBlackMan.com) Two fresh dangers in the looming Social Security battleground confront blacks and Hispanics. The GOP presidential candidates posed one when they again called for partially privatizing Social Security in recent stump speeches and statements. The idea is nothing but a rehash of the idea floated by George W. Bush ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A Chicago mother recently filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Board of Education alleging a Chicago Public School security guard handcuffed her young son while he was a student at George Washington Carver Primary School on the city’s far south side. In the lawsuit, filed Aug. 29, LaShanda Smith ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re working out, then you’re probably wasting your time and energy doing particular exercises that aren’t particularly effective. Why? There’s just so much information out there…and a much of it isn’t as accurate as you’d like to believe. Plus, you’re probably so anxious to achieve your fitness goals ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Students of political history already know the story of the late Senator Ted Kennedy in 1979. Others like Mo’Kelly are old enough to simply remember it. For everyone else, it goes a little something like this. Democratic party discontent with President Jimmy Carter for all things ranging from the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently read a well-written piece by Randall Kennedy at the Harvard Law School. In the article written for CNN, Kennedy argues that black critics of President Obama are flat out wrong, and that that their efforts are sorely misguided. In Kennedy’s words: Obama’s black detractors receive a degree of attention in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I can’t remember a time where I didn’t walk into a church and at one point have a particular preacher who decides to go on the typical “Rap music is bad for you, and it’s the devils music” campaign. I always look around the sanctuary and look at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For a large number of African Americans, Bill Clinton was not only the first Black President but he was the best thing that ever happened to us since sliced bread and fried chicken. I never subscribed to this belief. In fact I considered Clinton, his democratic party and his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The boxing ring has been home to many of sports history’s more controversial moments, some simply bad and others downright scandalous. Probably the most infamous occurrence in recent memory was Mike Tyson’s biting off of Evander Holyfield’s ear. Maybe some remember the shooting of Tupac Shakur after a Tyson ...