(ThyBlackMan.com) Black people have always been one of the most discriminated groups of people. No matter if we’re talking about racism or colorism, expect that out of ten black people, seven out of them have experienced negativity simply because of who they are. That being said, it’s understandable why you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Education is free. Freedom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state. — Karl Marx The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) John McWhorter is like the leader of a road band that plays the same tune every night. He advocated “ racial profiling” in Feb. 2004 in Commentary magazine which at the time was edited by John Podhoretz. This article in which a number of Blacks were barked at was McWhorter’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, on the Howard University’s WHUR Radio, there was a guest who was a young African-American basketball player who played on a team in Ukraine. He was asked about the difficult time he had getting out of that country. One of the questions was whether his being Black played ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Wesley Snipes has teamed with Ray Norman to write a story that will have the reader turning pages, eager to find out what happens next, and losing sleep. Given Snipes background with action films, and of course Blade, he brings a sense of reality to a story the reader ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week I am turning my column over to Ojani-Pierre Ruphin Walthrust, a MPA student at Columbia SIPA concentrating in Urban Policy. He is a 2020 Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow and will be entering the Foreign Service as a U.S. diplomat in Fall 2022 after graduating. *The opinions expressed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent years, there has been a growing problem with racism in sports. Unfortunately, the United States generally has a big problem with the unfair and unequal treatment of Blacks. Such a situation is also present in the National Football League (NFL), one of the most popular sports competitions ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It just irks me and rattles me to my bones to watch Black people major in the minors and minor in the majors. We have enough negative stereotypes as it is. But this “attitude” thing just kills me. On social media, in person, or wherever I see it. Some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As many governors, school boards and educational systems are trying to erase history by banning certain books in our schools and public libraries, how powerful to have ABC’s mini-series “Women of the Movement: the story of Mamie Till Mobley,” told at this particular time. Some governors have even said ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While the world has been focused on the growing numbers of COVID-19 causalities, the media has somewhat ignored the long-term educational and economic impacts of the pandemic – especially for Black students. Although there has been some attention given to the disparities between Black Americans and other groups contracting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a particular pain, and scaring, that takes place where there seems to be no place to call home. Regardless of parentage, and blood lines, when you can’t physically or internally head home everything is out of place. In the quest to find out people, in this case ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It hasn’t been that long ago since the Georgia Bulldogs won the College Football Playoff and South Carolina State defeated Jackson State to win the Black College Football National Championship. Over the past couple of years, Jackson State football has gotten a lot of the HBCU football attention due ...