(ThyBlackMan.com) I had the best chat with an elder in my neighborhood while she was picking her vegetables from her garden. It was the cutest thing I had seen in a long time. She was gathering her greens, beans, peppers, and some squash. As she was working, she allowed me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Doctors want to keep ignoring it, Science wants to keep denying it and the regulatory agencies you trusted to protect and inform you want to simply distract you from it. I’m talking about the gradual and now obvious immune system damage, weakening, malfunctioning and/or eventual destruction of the COVID-19 vaxxed and boosted in America. So while the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Mental illness should not be your ticket to death.” This was what one grieving parent told a phalanx of reporters a year ago in Virginia. Her son had serious mental health challenges. Yet he died at the hands of law enforcement. We’ve seen endless variations of this tragic pattern of death ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Cornel, What will your legacy be? How will your children and grandchildren view you? Like you, I am concerned about the murder of civilians in Palestine, Haiti, and Sudan. I’m also worried about the lives of civilians in our country. You’re polling at 4% in Michigan, and 3 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is fair to say that Salman Rushdie, the widely celebrated author, is one of the world’s foremost champions of free speech. Rushdie, who is perhaps best known for his novel “The Satanic Verses,” has sacrificed and suffered more for his craft than the vast majority of his fellow ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For millennia, non-European cultures have used psychedelic plants in spiritual rituals. Even today, they play a role in religious ceremonies for many cultures. An early instance of this is “Soma,” a ritual drink referred to multiple times in Sanskrit texts from the Hindu religion. Evidence indicates that the active ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Imagine a hairstyle that not only turns heads but also boldly expresses cultural identity and style.” That’s the power of twist hairstyles for black men. In today’s fashion-forward era, the aesthetic appeal and profound cultural significance of twist hairstyles can’t be overstated. This blog post delves into why these ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the maternal mortality rate in America continues to spike, Black Maternal Health Week is an urgent call to action. American women are dying at a higher rate from pregnancy-related causes than in any other developed nation, and Black women are three times more likely to die of complications ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Black community as a whole can never afford to lose empathy for one another. One of the core challenges in maintaining social justice is communicating the need for empathy. It is most critical to be willing to put yourself in another person’s shoes to understand their feelings, plight, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump has claimed credit for ending abortion in most of the 11 states that made up the confederacy through his appointment of three conservative justices to the Supreme Court during his presidency, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. These appointments shifted the balance of the court ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Philadelphia’s low-income Kensington neighborhood continues to be overrun with sleepwalking ‘zombies’ as overdoses caused by the street drug known as tranq continue to rise. Also known as ‘tranq dope’ or ‘zombie heroin,’ tranq is made up of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, that is mixed in with other drugs, notably ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The oft-told tale of horror has become both the stuff of legend and the stuff of caution about poverty and destitution. That’s the tale of woe of Shanghai China in the 1920s. Every morning dozens of bodies were swept up off that city’s streets. They were the poorest of ...