(ThyBlackMan.com) Michael Jordan is arguably one of the best professional basketball players in NBA history. Among his many accomplishments during his illustrious career, Jordan was Rookie of the Year, five-time NBA MVP, six-time NBA champion, six-time NBA Finals MVP, and an NBA Hall of Fame inductee. Jordan’s final game as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Turn on the debate shows long enough and you start to notice who gets handed the microphone when a Black athlete steps out of line. Not the loud one. Not the guy who might scare the room. Producers want somebody who looks the part, talks the culture, and still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Adrien Broner once carried the kind of promise the fight game rarely hands out. For a while, people talked about him like the next Floyd Mayweather. World titles across four weight classes, mouth running faster than his hands, a swagger that made you either love him or want to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Summer of 2024, on a debate stage down in Atlanta, the man stood up and told the whole country that folks coming across the southern border were snatching up what he called “Black jobs.” A few weeks later he walked into a room full of Black journalists in Chicago ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somebody decided a while back that a serious Black man ought to look as if he is hauling a boulder up a hill. I never agreed to that. My pushback happens right here in the kitchen, volume up, nothing loud about it. Most of what gets published about brothers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Political parties trade in loyalty, yet no Black man should hand a campaign the right to decide whom he respects, mentors, hires, or stands beside, especially not an outfit that will forget his name the morning after the votes are counted. I have lived long enough to watch good ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since March, America has been running an accidental experiment and glimpsing what the country might look like without one of its dumbest statutes. The results are in, and they embarrass a century’s worth of U.S. lawmakers and defenders. The statute is the Jones Act, passed in 1920 to rebuild ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” — Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) The rapid spread ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By every measure and means of rational and relevant consideration, calculation and comprehension, August is a month of major historical markers and milestones for us as African peoples. Indeed, it is an August of revolution, revolt, rebellion, insurrection and resistance of various kinds, and therefore, we call it Insurgent August, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones is starting to sound the alarm that the Democratic Party should not abandon the Deep South. Black lawmakers and activists across the Deep South argue they have been left behind by the Democratic Party to fight on their own. They point to years when ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Pain, and the fear, that can come with illness can make one cry out to God in a way never imagined. It can make one question God, cry out for God, feel afflicted by God, and possibly even abandoned by God all at the same time. Without realizing it, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number. The July jobs report says he was right. It was March of 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8 percent. King said ...