(ThyBlackMan.com) Michael Vick has done everything humanly possible to atone for his dog torturing past. He was tried, convicted and jailed. He accepted full responsibility for his actions. He’s virtually prostrated himself before every animal rights group around to apologize for his actions. He didn’t stop there. He’s spoken out ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Business lessons from the inspiring life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. New book released For Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2013 “[Rodney] Sampson has developed a creative use of King’s principles, using his high moral standard to suggest best practices for business. He raises some prudent ideas worth ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “One picture,” Fred R. Bernard once aptly remarked, “Is worth a thousand words.” But, we need only a few words to describe an unsettling truth vividly depicted in the drawing shown here. On first glance this picture evokes visual images of cruelty, dehumanization, exploitation, racism, injustice, corruption, disenfranchisement, arbitrary ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: mosheflow Office: (832) 380-5809 atlas brown Explores Writing Relations in New Book of Poetry Author atlas brown believes that writing poetry is the art form that guides humanity in understanding the challenges of daily life. Now she is tapping personal experiences in the first of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When we consider all of the problems that we have in the Black community, if anyone asked me what we are in most dire need of to resolve those problems, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second – I’d say education. Education is the key to resolving high unemployment, because ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you don’t think that the mass incarceration epidemic affects you, you might want to think again. When I met with Min. Louis Farrakhan for several hours in a private meeting to discuss our upcoming forum at The University of Illinois at Chicago, one of the topics that came ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You know me ALL ETIQUETTE EVERYTHING, there is an Etiquette to Everything that We Do! …and yes, there is Dating Etiquette. It’s Thursday and if you don’t have a date or other plans you and your girls might be going out this weekend to have some drinks and fun…and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My offering to Black History Month is dedicated to a man whom I knew and by whom I had the pleasure of seeing history being made right before my eyes. His words rang out in prose and song on the initial occasion of our meeting in Philadelphia in 1999. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jackie Robinson is remembered for breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball, but he played a less heralded role in Republican politics and black community activism. Robinson was a vital voice of reason in the early ‘60’s as the black liberation movement in the urban north grew more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So…this picture was emailed to me, and supposedly this is supposed to be the “new” Barbie Doll, though at this moment, I don’t think that has been confirmed by Mattel. At any rate, the message attached to the email was that, I was the “perfect person” to declare and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before I state my observations, I’d like to warn you that this piece may irritate the hell out of you. First, I’d also like to express that I am not any kind of social or political ideologue; readers to my own blog (Beyond The Political Spectrum) know that I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I just read a snippet from an old article in Essence Magazine indicating that researchers have uncovered new information suggesting that Cleopatra may not have been Black. The article brought back to mind a piece I read by Earl Ofari Hutchinson many years ago entitled, Whose Black History To Believe? In ...