(ThyBlackMan.com) Colson Whitehead is quite the eclectic writer with an equally as impressive resume. Raised in Manhattan, Whitehead is a graduate of Harvard University where he studied English and Comparative Literature. After graduation, Whitehead wrote reviews for television, books, and music for the Village Voice, the New York Times, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are too many people that would try to make black people in America feel the race argument is old. We are told by white Americans, and some POCs, that it is time to move on. There has been so much progress made in the area of race relations ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many books that expound upon the Christian experience. Some of them have become a part of the beginning of a life, the joining of a life, and the end of life. Many of us have heard the prayers given at baby christenings, the vows of a marriage…and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The Black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.” Jean-Michel Basquiat was a leading force in American art. His emergence form graffiti in New York to art galleries is a tale of urban enlightenment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Without effort no harvest will be abundant.” – Burundi As many of our people are seeking to establish a more solid relationship to culture and spirituality wisdom is a necessity. Many of us know the proverbs of the Bible, and that of the West. However, have you ever wondered ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Life is loaded with hardship, challenges, abuse, bad choices, and consequences. These things outside of having a stable foundation can ruin any soul. Being the child of a preached compounds the struggle as you live under a microscope that scrutinizes every mistake you could possibly make. The expectation is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The book of Exodus is one of the most known books of the Bible because it is a book steeped in the concept of freedom from oppression. The Bible is, arguably, one of the greatest pieces of literature ever written. The power of literature is it can speak to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mercy is a concept that is lost to the leadership in our society, if it ever really existed. Our leaders sit high above us passing legislation that is not in our best interest. Our leaders allow citizens to live with poisonous water, subpar education, unjust judicial systems, and a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America is a country steeped in struggle. There is no time in her history whereby struggle among the people of this country doesn’t exist. It happens in the most unfortunate of ways…slavery, racism, genocide, sexism, abuse of power, and what feels like a way against anyone that is different ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many adaptations of the history of American born blacks in this country. Most of those accounts are written by the white majority; very few are an attempt to tell history as it truly happened. There are too many times whereby the writers of these books seek to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Fathers are important to the life of their children. They are just as valuable as the mother, and just as necessary. When a child grows up without there father there is an imbalance in how they were taught to see and deal with the world. When the child is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The American economy is sluggish and has not reached take off velocity, when it comes to creating good paying jobs and economic growth. The reason for this is, we have not been feeding the right sector within our economy. The right sector, is the American consumer! Consumers have been ...