(ThyBlackMan.com) “A people without the knowledge of their history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey When I graduated high school in New Orleans, America was a different place. Black Americans were all but locked out of economic opportunity because of the color of our skin ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Collegiate sports are undergoing arguably its most unpredictable era ever. There are several NFL rookies leaving NFL training camps with the hopes of joining a college football team this upcoming 2026 college football season. The NCAA announced a five-year, age-based eligibility model earlier this year that starts with an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to watch an entire generation start believing a person is whoever his pictures claim. That belief has cost people plenty. The federal complaint against Daejon Love, filed this month in the District of Oregon and later made public, is among the clearest warnings I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every young brother I know has heard the sermon. Buy the house. Stop throwing money away on rent. Build something you can leave behind. For years I preached that same gospel myself, standing in barbershops and cookouts telling nephews and coworkers that a deed was the closest thing to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A little more than seven months have gone by since Kanye West bought a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal and addressed it to everyone left wounded in his wake. That January statement was, on its surface, everything critics had asked of him for years. It started with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere along the way a lot of us convinced ourselves that a fat bank account and financial wisdom were the same thing. They are cousins at best, and distant ones at that. I got to thinking about this again while watching the whole Floyd situation unfold across 2026, because if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a photograph in my head of Michael at his peak, tongue out, rising toward a rim that never seemed far enough away to stop him. Most of us carry some version of that image. It got burned into a whole generation. What fewer of us sit with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have watched a lot of politicians stand at a podium and talk about the little man. Most of the time the little man they picture looks nothing like me, my nephews, or the fellas I came up with back home. So when Vice President JD Vance gets up ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are some things we never give a second thought because our nation has timeless traditions that are easily taken for granted. The 61st U.S. presidential inauguration will occur on Saturday, January 20, 2029, and tradition has it that the incoming and outgoing presidents meet at the White House before traveling ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most of us learned early that a paycheck was the whole point. You show up, put in your hours, and Friday the direct deposit lands. That money keeps a roof up and food on the table. For a long stretch of my life, that felt like the entire arrangement. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It drew some media and public attention. The “it” was the news item in August 2026 that California state officials were mandated to clean up a toxin chemical dump that had posed danger to residents for four decades in an area of South L.A.. The fact that it even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember the version of manhood a lot of us were handed coming up. Your daddy provided, and if he stuck around at all you counted yourself lucky. Emotion stayed folded up somewhere behind the ribs. A boy learned early that a real man kept his answers ready and ...