(ThyBlackMan.com) Black youth both young men and women are being killed, their lives seemingly have no valuable. Just another statistic for vital statistics and crime reports and another one or two minute sound bite for news media. Young men like Trayvon Martin (Sanford, Florida), Ervin Jefferson (Atlanta, Ga.), 20-year-old Kendrec ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) George Zimmerman, the man who instantly turned himself into public enemy number one, is an intriguing character for a multitude of reasons. When I read George Zimmerman’s story, he reminds me of one of my more “interesting” friends who had a similar story in his life. This person was also ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Carl Rowan once said, “There are two ways to circumvent or trample over a constitution…one way is to arouse public fear and hatred…the second way is to amass enough police or military power to force your will upon society.” This was decades before the election of President Obama and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My grandfather use to say, “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” How appropriate this wisdom in the wake of the Trayvon Martin tragedy. Trayvon was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain posing as a self-appointed neighborhood vigilante. The shooter, George Zimmerman, told a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are few people on this earth that I love more than Abena Agyeman-Fisher, the editor at NewsOne.com. A consummate professional and arguably the leading online journalist in the country, Abena is never someone I would accuse of being a liar. But this morning, after rolling out of bed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The road to better health can sometimes seem like an uphill battle. But with every small step you take and each healthy decision you make, you do get closer to your goal of improved health, and one of the most effective ways to do this is by eating a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is nothing so beautiful as to see a confident brother, making his move. And then you see the cheap suit, gold and diamond-OIDS encrusted on everything and then he opens his mouth and there you see that open face. You don’t know if this brother owns the local gym ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I like a woman with a future and a past,” Drake chants on his latest album, Take Care. Literally taking that phrase, he spits on his second album, reminds me of his first album, Thank Me Later. I was introduced to Drake by a friend in college. We went ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Trayvon Martin is more valuable to America as a dead young Black man then he ever was alive! As a dead symbol, the president can claim him as a son he never had, but as a living Black man, the American criminal justice system claims one out of three ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was fortunate enough to travel to Philadelphia, PA to attend the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development Annual Conference. One of the most fascinating sessions that I have ever attended had to have been, “Inspiring Black Males to Soar” by Principal Baruti Kafele. Principal Kafele provided all attendees ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A thousand years before Christ the Queen of Sheba, we are told, traveled to Jerusalem where she met King Solomon, married him and had a son, Menelik. When Menelik reached maturity, it’s said that he returned to Ethiopia taking with him the Ark of the Covenant containing the original ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black history may soon find that it is defined by one line of demarcation: BB (Before Obama) and AB (After Obama). There might even be some historical reference to the volatile period called DB (During Obama), where an archive will contain images of black people going to blows over where ...