(ThyBlackMan.com) The saga of Cliven Bundy is a story that captures a moment in modern American political, social and racial attitudes. It is a story that has gotten much attention in the press recently and as most stories do in our modern age, it has divided people along political and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) National Basketball Association (NBA) L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling has a long-documented and publicly-known history of being a bigot; the revelation of the 2009 housing discrimination suit against him served as a monolithic red flag. Even in the midst of that 2009 scandal and in the face of provable, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Keep your eye on the ball. As they say, always keep your eye on the ball. Note the spectacular media uproar, and lightning swift retaliation, to the intemperate words of Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers. And now we can all go back to playing the game. Yes, that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) National Basketball Association owners, like kids, say the “darndest” things. Usually, only some of those things are noteworthy, let alone newsworthy. But when one owner is slated to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP now has the dubious distinction of being the civil rights organization that was insistent upon giving a Lifetime Achievement Award to Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Most astonishing about the award was that it was set to be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “You cannot move the ball forward if you do not discuss race; and discuss it uncomfortably.” That’s a direct quote from Colin Cowherd – bestselling Author, TV show host, and the host of ESPN’s nationally broadcast radio talk show, “The Herd.” Mr. Cowherd said those words in the wake ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An audiotape obtained by celebrity gossip show TMZ has revealed Los Angeles Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling scolding his Black and Mexican girlfriend for publicly associating with Black people. The tirade came after the woman, reported by TMZ to be V. Stiviano, posted a photograph of herself and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) are some mistakes you can make to show that you’re old-fashioned, and there are other mistakes that might cost your organization a hundred million dollars. Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on the phone telling his girlfriend to not associate with black people, at least not in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Major League Baseball’s home run king, Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron has just knocked another one out of the park. But this time, Aaron wasn’t on a baseball diamond. Aaron stood up boldly on the national stage and blasted a political homerun against Republicans who have made a sport of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We may as well call it “Edu-pay-tion,” as far as many prospective students are concerned. The cost of a college degree has risen 1120% since 1978, but wages have increased a mere 6% during that same period. The national collective college debt is more than $1 trillion! We have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I heard a child the other day ask his mother why Donald Duck comes out of the shower with a towel on? “Ducks live in the water. Why do they need showers?” she asked. I thought it was insightful, and funny, that a little kid who couldn’t have been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The summit to educate, encourage and engage over several hundred youth attending the “Talk It Out” Summit was an overwhelming success in Jacksonville, Florida. Building of leaders is what Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Gamma Rho Omega Chapter, Inc. does well in its national and international sorority. Alpha Kappa ...