(ThyBlackMan.com) It says a lot about the year in sports in 2024 when the choice for TIME Magazine’s Athlete of the Year is polarizing during an Olympic year of noteworthy performances. In 2024, Caitlin Clark concluded her historic college basketball career falling short of leading Iowa to a women’s basketball ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At some point in life, most of us will learn and conclude life isn’t always fair. You can be attractive, charitable, eloquent, friendly, qualified, and operate with integrity in all your dealings without being invited to dance. Class and charisma won’t secure you an invitation to participate in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Remember Orson Welles’ radio drama “The War of the Worlds,” featuring a terrifying Martian invasion? By a stroke of luck, the narrative was apocryphal. This time, we may not be so fortunate. Mushrooming reports from California and New Jersey have revealed swarms of surveillance drones above sensitive areas, in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was just another day in America. Another location, another day of the week that ends in the letter “y”. No real story there. Keep moving, nothing to see. Perhaps the fact that the culprit this time was a female, age 15 may have raised an eyebrow. It may ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) became the first, and for a time, the only senator in U.S. history to vote to convict an impeached president of his own party. That vote followed the first impeachment of President Donald Trump over the allegation that he solicited Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 ...
(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 ...