(ThyBlackMan.com) The world’s greatest gymnast, Simone Biles, unexpectedly dropped out of this year’s Olympics in Japan and set off a global firestorm about mental health. She withdrew from the women’s gymnastics team final and the all-around competition. She later decided to compete in the women’s final for the balance beam ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was a scandal, a disgusting scandal that swept through Major League Baseball (MLB) over the weekend – some horrible, horrible, probably Republican voting, definitely Trump supporting monster started screaming the N-word at a black player in the 9th inning of the Colorado Rockies vs. Miami Marlins game. What ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It will be a special weekend at the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Class of 2020 had to wait until this year to give their enshrinement speeches. That postponement means that this weekend will have the most Pro Football Hall of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With few exceptions, every four years citizens of the world revel in the pomp, ceremonies, and athletic excellence of the Olympic Games. Something in the human spirit admires the competition of the games and, for that moment in time, the emergence of the best athletes. Like many this year, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First, it was Juneteenth. Now it’s Willie O’Ree. Let’s take both and then try to see what the GOP is up to. Remember seeming from nowhere all fifty GOP senators enthusiastically signed off on legislation that made Juneteenth an official national holiday. That’s the day that slaves in Texas ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a long-standing tradition to air the national anthem prior to kickoff at football games. Now, the NFL has decided to follow this tradition by playing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is known traditionally to many Black Americans as the Black national anthem. The song was originally ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are only two teams left standing in the NBA as the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks play in the NBA Finals. Despite valiant efforts from the Clippers and Hawks, respectively, their players head into the off-season. Few professions in America get as long of a layoff from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my Blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.”-Audre Lorde Being a member of the sports media ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sha’Carri Richardson, 21, who recently made the U.S. Olympic Team self-sabotaged in a moment of lapsed judgment. Days after she made the Olympic team for the Tokyo Olympics, she was drug tested and had tested positive for marijuana. I do not smoke marijuana, and I’m glad that I never ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just days after a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding athlete compensation, the NCAA cleared student-athletes to be compensated for the use of their name, image, and likeness without losing their college eligibility. The seemingly eternal debate of whether college athletes should be paid is only partially answered as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are less than a month away from the opening ceremonies of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Most people realize that last year’s Olympics were postponed due the global COVID-19 pandemic. Given the damage the pandemic did in 2020, it was the right move to postpone the Summer Olympics by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re unhappy with the third place American hammer thrower creating a 48 to 72-hour news cycle out of her petulant and selfish behavior on the medal podium this week, I have bad news for you. Get used to it, because the summer Olympics in Tokyo will be full ...