(ThyBlackMan.com) Former NBA player and Fab Five member Jalen Rose was suspended indefinitely by ESPN after reports surfaced that Rose had been arrested for drunk driving. According to ESPN, Rose was being sent to the bench for not reporting the incident to the network. Rose allegedly failed a blood-alcohol test ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every now and then, some families get to experience “that intervention moment.” This is when the uncle who’s been getting high, drunk and abusive every single day finally admits that he might have a problem. Of course he still minimizes the significance of his issues, but he has at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No one wants to be called an Uncle Tom. Targeted at middle- or upper-class African Americans, it’s nearly the same as a slur — right up there with the “N” word. Uncle Tom means that you’ve bought into the establishment and are not looking back to the folks who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Civil Rights Game between Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies – To be Held on Sunday, May 15 at Turner Field in Atlanta, GA… Academy Award Winner Morgan Freeman, Grammy Award Winner Carlos Santana and Baseball Hall of Famer Ernie Banks will receive MLB Beacon Awards during 2011 Civil Rights ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After reading an article by Richard Vedder, Why Do We Have HBCU’s?, I came to the conclusions most people really do not see the major impact of some of these great institution of higher learning. HBCU’s produce more black PhD students than other institutions reported by the National Science ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with the recent interview between Tiger Woods and Robin Roberts of ABC’s Good Morning America. I have a great deal of respect for both Woods and Roberts, but as with most Americans, I’m never quite sure what to expect next out of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a black man who is roughly the same age as Grant Hill and Jalen Rose, I watched the back and forth between these two great warriors with extreme curiosity. During the ESPN documentary about the Fab Five, Jalen went out of his way to say that at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida told us, once again, what most of us already knew: Black Division I men’s basketball players are lagging behind white student athletes when it comes to graduation rates. Although the study cites a long-term increase ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As teenagers, Jalen Rose and his Fab Five teammates believed that African-American basketball players who played for Mike Krzyzewski at Duke were Uncle Toms. That sentiment was expressed during The Fab Five, ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary film about the University of Michigan basketball team of the early 1990s. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I lived through the Fab Five era within college basketball, literally breathing the same air and vicariously identifying with the brothers who brought power and style to the sport. I was approximately the same age as the five freshmen who took their team to the NCAA championship, and I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The pending lockout of NFL players is expected by some to be a matter of history repeating itself. Team owners, hungry to earn an even larger profit from their business ventures, are going to keep the players off the field until they get what they want. Some might naively ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Doug Williams led the Washington Redskins to victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXII, I remember hearing Redskins radio commentator and Hall of Fame linebacker Sam Huff say that it was his hope that the stereotype of the black athlete not having the mental capacity to ...