(ThyBlackMan.com) Individualism is a social and political philosophy that places the highest value on the independence, rights, and self-reliance of the single person over the group or state as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. It is the core belief that each person should think and act freely rather than depend on others ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ask me which records I’d grab if the house caught fire and I never even have to think. Nineteen seventy two through seventy six. One man at the center of it all, and he flat tore up everything the rest of us figured a record was supposed to be. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ever hear the phrase “the burden of proof”? I believe it is used when one accuses someone else of wrong doing that the person making the accusation has the responsibility to prove that the wrong doing was in fact committed. In a court of law, the burden of proof ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the things that amazes me, and in truth it amazes believers everywhere, is the great gulf between Christians and ordinary people in terms of spirituality, and even more so, in how we regard the person most refer to as God. Some people have no proper concept of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So the word came down Friday out of Los Angeles, and anybody near a hip hop timeline that afternoon felt the room shift. Lil Durk was cleared in federal court on all five counts. Not guilty straight across the board. The twelve who held his fate sat with it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We and the world will always owe Haiti something special for its unique and singular contribution of breaking the back of enslavement in Haiti, expanding the realm of freedom in the world and then daring to aid others. Indeed, Haiti did for human freedom what the US founding fathers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It would be an understatement to simply say that our nation, both domestically and on the world stage, is in trouble. The United States remains a superpower and is very much respected around the world. Yet, its credibility is now being second-guessed. Its reliability as a NATO partner is also ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I just came out of my home studio. I wrote a song called Laura Loomer Please Stop, for really complex reasons that had a lot to do with my life as a father to a daughter, Kathryn Cherise. She is a brilliant young woman and she has recently earned ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) New York City’s troubling decline in reading scores, despite one of the most ambitious literacy reform efforts in the nation, is a wakeup call for the entire nation. Across the country, reading achievement continues to decline. Nearly 40 percent of fourth graders read below the basic level and roughly a third ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The current regime in Washington will go down as the most insensitive, corrupt, inhumane and vindictive in the history of the nation. Some would also add most chaotic also to that list. Understandable, but wrong. What many have viewed as chaos may in fact be a well-orchestrated strategy to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So here is the mess that dropped this week, and I aim to give it to you plain. Journalist Rula Jebreal went on The Left Hook podcast with host Wajahat Ali and called Hakeem Jeffries an “AIPAC monkey.” Then she piled on with “errand boy.” Right after that came ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For all the talk about Black men and rivalry, about crabs in a barrel and one seat at the table, the most important film partnership of the past decade has spent its whole run quietly arguing the opposite case. I came up in a time when we were taught, ...