(ThyBlackMan.com) This year and each year, the coming of Kwanzaa causes us to come together in celebration, remembrance, reflection and recommitment. And it also urges us to constantly study and learn the deep meanings and expansive message of Kwanzaa, not only in its grounding philosophy, Kawaida, and its core Seven Principles (Nguzo Saba), but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and adults everywhere are busy choosing holiday gifts for the children they love, books should always be at the top of the list. The right book can spark a lifelong love of reading and open up a whole new world for a child or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is a revisiting of an early and ongoing conversation about the shared meaning of Kwanzaa, its particular cultural message to African people, and its core values that speak to the best of what it means to be African and human in the world and for the world. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s face it. There are some people who are jealous and can’t stand the idea of so many brilliant Black women! I admit, there are a lot and it might be a bit overwhelming. Just look at history and look around you now. No matter what many Black women do, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The election of Donald Trump is similar to a biblical story found in 1 Samuel 8. The leaders of Israel, on behalf of the people, came to the prophet Samuel stating that they wanted a king so they could be like the other nations. In other words, so they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I think it’s important to invest in these unorthodox sports for Black athletes because it allows Black children to have more opportunities to ply sports in general. The more opportunities that children have, the better. They won’t feel like they are boxed into one thing or sport.” — Zion Williams ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the run up to the November 2024 presidential election, Democratic party candidates and officials exhorted voters that American democracy was in serious danger if Donald J. Trump was elected as president. They pointed out that Trump in his own words talked about becoming a dictator for at least ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the startling news broke on Thursday that China’s President Xi Jinping had accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald J. Trump to attend Trump’s Inauguration on January 20th, it barely moved the needle in America’s newsrooms…because it was only a small blip on the worldwide radar screens monitoring Trump’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years. As such he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (***) Back in the third century, Rome was the heart of the vast Roman Empire, and its Colosseum was the heart of the city. That’s where the rich, poor and otherwise gathered for events. Gladiator fights. Contests between man and beasts. Executions. Even nautical battles, when they’d flood the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The same day Daniel Penny, the retired Marine and architecture student, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and negligent homicide, a New York grand jury declined to recommend charges against Jordan Williams. Williams and his girlfriend, who are both black, were on a Brooklyn subway train when Williams, 20 years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Trump’s election promises, delivering for both billionaires and working-class Americans, is not a done deal. To deliver for two of the most diametrically opposed groups of his, and the Republican party’s newest coalition, working-class Americans and billionaires, millionaires and corporate America, President Trump has to be something Democrats refuse to ...