(ThyBlackMan.com) Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was a pioneering African American poet, essayist, and educator whose work was marked by technical mastery, intellectual depth, and a profound exploration of African American history and culture. In a career spanning over five decades, Hayden established himself as one of the foremost voices of African ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The shooting of Ralph Yarl is a story that is still relatively fresh in today’s news cycle. As the days and weeks pass, current news will eventually push the Yarl story away from our radar. The violence surrounding the shooting is not a situation where we go back to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Paul Laurence Dunbar was an influential African-American poet, novelist, and playwright who emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work was groundbreaking for its time, as it provided a voice to the African-American experience in post-Civil War America. Dunbar’s literary contributions transcended racial barriers and gained ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Poetry has always been a powerful medium for self-expression, a way to communicate complex ideas and emotions in a concise and poignant manner. Black poetry, in particular, has a long and rich history, rooted in the experiences of Black people throughout the diaspora. From the earliest slave narratives to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nikki Giovanni is a renowned African American poet, writer, commentator, and educator. Born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr. on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee, her poetic voice has resonated across generations, addressing pressing social issues, celebrating Black culture, and exploring themes of love and human connection. Throughout her career, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every year, the American Library Association unveils its list of the top ten most-challenged books for the previous year. And this year, Number One is the same as last year’s Number One: the book “Gender Queer,” by Maia Kobabe. Other books that achieved this distinction were Toni Morrison’s classic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week the radical liberal Washington Post newspaper had one of their self-identified journalists, Ian Shapira do a hit piece on one of Virginia Governor’s, Glenn Youngkin, agency heads. In the reporter’s feeble attempt to embarrass the Younkin administration, he ended up proving the very point the Youngkin official ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Our sense of belonging and prosperity relies on freedom from violence. That freedom requires confronting the threat that armed violence poses to our democracy and the hate-fueled rhetoric that feeds it. Moreover, keeping voters and elections safe from political violence is necessary to advance free, fair, and secure elections ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent massacre of three students and three adults in Nashville is alarming. How and why did a former student invade the school locked and loaded with an automatic weapon and ruthlessly kill innocent students and their caretakers? While it is useless to speculate on the thought process that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The expanding discourse of concern and needful resistance that has developed in the Black scholarly and engaged community around the planned USA tour of Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egyptologist and former Minister of State of Antiquities in Egypt, is understandable and to be encouraged. For he has taken talking points ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Women’s History Month comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about moms and honoring motherhood. I’ve written before about how my mom instilled values in me, including respect for everyone’s rights – not just my own. Mom also worked multiple jobs to support our family through some very hard ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An unnamed, unidentified Black man at the raucous Temecula School Board mid-March meeting was the latest to feel the wrath of the countless number of livid, dyed in the wool opponents of anything that smacks of teaching critical race theory in the schools. The man had the temerity to ...