(ThyBlackMan.com) Sister circles are a wonderful thing to have, especially when the reciprocity flows easy like water. However, sometimes as women, we are our worst enemies to each other. There is an understanding within us of what we need out of a sister. We need someone that’s going to show ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Minding one’s own business never seems to be the priority of enough people. Everyone seems to have something to say about how everyone is living, walking, talking and doing. However, none of us want to be on the receiving end of the judgment that we pass out; this is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a world where oppressive regimes constantly challenge human rights advocacy, the disinformation campaign against Professor Javaid Rehman, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, underscores the lengths to which authoritarian states like Iran will go to silence dissent. This campaign aims to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Donald Trump is a ticking time bomb. He doesn’t need someone else to speak against him or to bring up his faults. This will be done. However, he brings up his own faults. No one indicts Trump better than his own mouth. His inability to listen to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As African Americans in the United States, our ability to understand the suffering of other marginalized groups run deep. When you have spent an entire history battling oppression, you not only recognize the oppression of others but you want to reach out to them. You want to help them. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “As long as some among us are oppressed–and we are part of that oppression–it must blunt our faith and sap the strength of our high purpose. Thus, this is a victory for the freedom of the American Negro. But it is also a victory for the freedom of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’d be the first to admit I was really concerned about who Vice President Kamala Harris might choose as her running mate. I understood that her choice for VP would have to be very strategic. It would have to be someone that could be a balance to her, someone ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the 1960-70;s when the US government targeted Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia) to expand its imperialist and neocolonialist empire, there was great opposition to the wars in that region and someone asked the question, “what if they gave a war and no one came?” There was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since the end of the summer season in 1619, Black women of all ages across America have tried to convince anyone with a heart who would listen, observe, and think objectively that they, too, have value and are worth committing to. From the time that Black Women landed on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the crack epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s, children exposed to crack cocaine before birth were often referred to as “crack babies.” Crack babies sometimes became boarder babies—babies abandoned at the hospital by parents who could not care for them. For months, hospital nurseries became temporary homes for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) California Governor Gavin Newsom threw yet another monkey wrench into the seemingly never-ending debate within the California legislature and just about everywhere else on slavery reparations. Gavin tossed a bunch of amendments into a bill the legislature –that is the Democratic controlled legislature- was on the verge of passing. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was always taught one of the greatest threats to individual, and community, progress was the limitations that we place on our minds. Once we decided something cannot be done in our head it’s almost a guarantee that we have lost the battle of learning a new thing. Limitations ...