(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Frances Scott Key, author of the Star-Spangled Banner, our “National Anthem” was a died in the wool racist. He opined that “Negroes” were a “distinct and inferior race.” He was a slaveholder from a family of slaveholders who influenced the odious seventh President Andrew Jackson to appoint Roger Taney, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are currently in the midst of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) end of season playoffs. The Los Angeles Clippers are battling the Phoenix Suns for the Western Conference title. The Milwaukee Bucks are battling the Atlanta Hawks for the Eastern Conference title. By early July, the respective conference ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A Message within A Message For Black America “If you are Physically Black and Psychologically Black then you will see the message “ALL BLACK EVERYTHING’ Lebron James Should Be Quiet and Stay out of Politics and Police shootings! If Lebron James hates white people and love his people, then ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The names Emmitt Smith and Walter Payton are vital parts of NFL history. Smith was the ground attack for one of the NFL’s greatest dynasties, the 1990s Dallas Cowboys, and Payton represented the power of the Chicago Bears offense as a member of one of the greatest teams in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a test of will, strength, talent, and ability to play in the National Football League as a player. Football is a brutal and violent sport and the best of the best play in the NFL. The men who play in the NFL challenge their bodies in physically ...