(ThyBlackMan.com) As we engage the 2024 ASALH Black History Theme: “African Americans and the Arts”, it is important to approach it as a celebration, invitation and opportunity to remember and reflect on the essential and enduring role art has played in our lives and struggle to be ourselves and free ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For baseball fans one of the biggest events of the entire year is the announcement of the National Baseball Hall of Fame voting results. This year, one of those chosen for baseball’s greatest honor was third baseman Adrián Beltré, who was a first ballot Hall of Fame selection as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently the Congress of the United States held a hearing regarding the damage social media is causing. They had no problems, slamming companies like TikTok, Facebook and Instagram and it’s always easy to blame somebody else. I am not here to defend those social media companies. But I am ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) History was made when… “Twenty and odd” Africans landed in Virginia in August of 1619; Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat in December of 1955; France awarded the Croix de Guerre, its highest military honor, to the entire 369th Infantry Regiment, known as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This year, we commemorate Black History Month under the shadow of continued efforts to whitewash or eliminate lessons about race and systemic racism in classrooms across the United States. These efforts to spoon-feed children sugarcoated versions of our history leave them ill-equipped to be citizens weighing in on the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In his autobiography, the legendary Groucho Marx wrote about an incident in which he resigned from a prestigious social club: “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.” I note Marx’s quip as I consider the myriad attacks on Ivy League schools ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Knowing the quickest approach to exchange Bitcoins for cash is a crucial skill that any Bitcoin user who is curious about how to convert Bitcoins to cash has to possess. Among the many justifications are real-world applicability, ability to handle market volatility with ease, emergency readiness, investment and diversification ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Despite the changing society we live in, the honor of being a teacher will never change. Knowing that a teacher can shape the young minds of children for a lifetime is a reward in itself. Both the student and society benefits when a teacher is successful in molding future ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Charlie Kirk, speaking to students and teachers at American Fest, a political convention organized by Turning Point, insisted, “MLK [Martin Luther King] was awful. He’s not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn’t believe.” Kirk has never risked that last full measure of devotion for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The National Football League’s head coaching carousel continues to spin and the two biggest head coaching candidates were NFL legend Bill Belichick and Michigan Wolverines National Champion Jim Harbaugh. Both men have won at high levels consistently throughout their careers and it is rare for NFL franchises to have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NFL has announced that for the fourth year in a row, the so-called black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” will be performed at the Super Bowl. It appears we’ve come full circle since the 2004 Democratic National Convention when then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said: “Yet ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just when we thought things were getting better around the world, and at home, some of the craziest stuff raised its ugly head not to resolve problems, but to create more. We were heavily impacted by the Israeli-Hamas tragedy. Our hearts were broken for friends caught up in a ...