(ThyBlackMan.com) Super Bowl LVI is drawing closer and closer. While the Super Bowl gets and deserves most of the attention related to the National Football League, the NFL’s coaching carousel has been spinning rapidly as of late. The Chicago Bears hired Indianapolis Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus as their new ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, the United States won 56 medals, 14 by Black athletes. Jesse Owens dominated the Olympics by becoming the first person ever in Olympic track history to win four gold medals at one time. This is history that all Americans—regardless of race—can be proud ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s a new year and greater focus in HBCUs than in there was in the recent past. Today, there are 107 colleges in America that are identified by the US Department of Education as Historically Black Colleges and Universities also known as HBCUs. Of those 107, three are currently ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like 2020, the year 2021 was a polarizing year. Although the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the greater availability of vaccines for many Americans has led to a “reopening” in many areas of life that were closed for large portions of 2020. The ability to participate and be spectators in sports ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the NBA celebrates its 75th anniversary during the 2021-22 season, the WNBA celebrated its 25th anniversary season months ago. The WNBA launched in June 1997 with eight teams and currently has 12 and while it is still growing in popularity and attention, the WNBA had a successful season ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I was much younger, it was common to hear the following question when it came to sports stars: “Is he going to be the hero or the goat?” At the time, this distinction signaled the difference between athletes (nearly always male) who lifted their team to great heights ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 2021 has been a year for some significant court decisions related to systematic racism. The murder of unarmed Black citizen George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin was one of the biggest stories of 2020 and this year Chauvin was found guilty of all charges in the murder of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the notable inactive players during the National Football League’s Week 8 games was Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Calvin Ridley. The Falcons star is one of the best and most important members of his team and surprisingly did not play in the team’s loss to the Carolina Panthers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has been a long time coming but last night we did it; the Atlanta Braves once again will reign as the World Champions of Baseball. It could not have happened to a more deserving team. I am glad not only because the Braves are my favorite team or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The acronym, NAACP, is among the more historic and respected ones in this country’s history. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or NAACP, was formed in 1909 and has been the premier and most well-known civil rights organization in the United States. It has been in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Houston and Atlanta are battling in this year’s World Series to be the champions of the 2021 Major League Baseball season. Atlanta is making its first appearance in the World Series since being swept by the New York Yankees in 1999 while Houston is making its third World Series ...
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