(ThyBlackMan.com) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) holds an indelible place in American literary history. As one of the first African American poets to gain national recognition, Dunbar’s work traversed the complexities of racial identity, cultural pride, and the human condition. His poetry, which combines traditional poetic forms with the dialect of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (**1/2) They’re girlz in the hood. Two young women trying to make it from Friday to Next Friday and Friday After Next. And as they do, they take viewers on a journey through working class Los Angeles that feels like it was ripped from the past and updated with a modern feminist twist. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many experts in neuroscience and psychology have concluded that dreams are essential for all of humanity. Dreams are needed for our mental, emotional, and physical health. Before August 28, 1963, many Black Americans would contend that their lives in America had been anything but a dream because their lives ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine, if you will, that you are a soldier in a battle and you can hear a sound coming from an approaching missile, which as you very well know, is about to explode with deadly consequences. You can hear the sound clearly, its fearsome payload is well known to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What makes you a Christian? No, this is not an academic inquiry, as if I am asking you a non-controversial question like how tall are you, or what primary school did you attend or if you had a good breakfast this morning. No, I am neither seeking a quotation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you do something spiritual there’s always the temptation that you do it for glory. This may not be wrong but it’s better to do it for love. Sometimes we strive to do so much that we forget who we’re doing it for or why. Or we become discouraged ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A Black American political and civil rights organization, which by its own admission was worth $90 million in 2021, is not currently delivering on its promises to Black Americans. If you review the federal tax return of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) for the tax year beginning ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What hangs in the balance every time we make a decision? Do we always stop and actually think of that? Perhaps we just do what ever and then maybe think about it eventually. But then sometimes, not ever. We are not perfect beings but we often try to act ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is official: 2024 was the hottest year on record. Temperatures not only surpassed 2023 as the previous hottest year, they leapt – for the first time – past the goal set in the Paris Climate Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Whether you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is a necessary revisiting of a critical issue, reclaiming King in the turbulent and taxing context of our time. In the midst of our rightful celebration of the life and legacy of Nana Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is important to note that no honor is more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At one time or another we all would like to know what’s in our future. Being a prognosticator is not difficult once you are able to discern the trends, patterns and habits of a person, group or nation. When we know ourselves we can predict or anticipate how we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The year 2025 marks the nation’s 39th observance of a national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ironically, the still-beloved minister and martyr was only 39 years old age when an assassin’s bullet took his life on April 4, 1968. While many will rightly recall his valiant civil rights ...