(ThyBlackMan.com) With all the talk about the economy relative to the rich and the poor, tax inequity, disparities in employment, and high prices for the necessities of life, one very important consideration for Black people in the U.S. is cash flow – both individual and collective. Simply put, cash flow ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2011 winner of the “Most Controversial Movie” award proved to be a big winner at last night’s SAG Awards. The Help snagged statues for best ensemble cast, best actress, Viola Davis, and best supporting actress Octavia Spencer. In Spencer’s acceptance speech she thanked the women, like the one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The bullet-riddled tee shirt of President Obama posted brazenly on Facebook by seven semi-automatic gun toting men among them a Peoria, Arizona, police sergeant was much more than the by now standard non-stop litany of racist cartoons, depictions, web postings, and kooky loose talk threats against President Obama. The gun-toting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is true that the GOP have not dealt with or attempted to address job creation until recent months, but it is also true that it took until late in 2009 for Obama to deal with it as well when he introduced his stimulus bill. Like the GOP he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A Dialogue On The Fair Representation And Equitable Treatment of 16 – 24 year olds. “A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights” Lucretia Mott This historic dialogue was attended by several hundred youth of all ages, nationalities and cultures representing diversity throughout Jacksonville and Northeast Florida. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last night, President Obama, our first African American President, delivered his third State of the Union address. On that same day, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated two gifted African American actresses, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, for Oscars for playing maids in The Help. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we enter the year which will make or break America as we know it, I wish to remind all of you that We Are Family. Together, we took the House, and together we must take the White House. In my travels across our great land, six times on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I receive a phone call from a friend of mine who teaches elementary school. She told me that she’d spent the week excited about the fact that some college basketball players were coming to her school to eat lunch with the kids. She thought that her inner city students ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Fear. It creeps up on us, often without a sound. It asks, “What if everything goes wrong?” “What if I fail?” “What if I never get what I want?” And disastrous answers to those questions can send us down a path of negative thinking that spirals out of control. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in slavery days, there were hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of brave Black men and women that resisted the exploitation, the abuse and the oppression of wicked slave masters. Those fearless men and women would constantly seek to live their lives as free citizens. They would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re trying to maintain a healthy diet, but still like to go out to restaurants now and then, eating healthy can sometimes be a challenge. While many restaurants now cater to health-conscious consumers, there are still those that may not. How can the savvy restaurant customer eat well ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black Patriarchy & Womanism… I was reflecting on two things: 1) Why I identify as Black feminist and womanist, 2) Angie Stone’s song “Brotha”. Womanism as defined by Alice Walker who coined the term can be found here: “A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually. Appreciates and prefers women’s ...