(ThyBlackMan.com) There are albums that are considered everyone’s favorites. Like, everyone agrees you should check these albums out. Then there are albums that folks say that you should check out but you probably never heard of the artist before. I’m not going to lie, often times the ones everyone say ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Families come in all sizes and shapes. Immediate, extended, separated and crazy too. These films, from the 60th annual New York Film Festival, showcased how loving, eccentric or dysfunctional familial relations can be. Aftersun (**1/2) Calum (Paul Mescal, Normal People), a divorced Scottish father living in England, reunites with his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Francesca Corio). They meet up on a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once a tiny segment of our existence—a mere association with a group whose ideas align with ours on average—political parties have evolved from simple associations into our primary identities. They have absorbed our perspectives, entered our daily conversation, and permeated all forms of media. As more and more individuals ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During this Supreme Court session, the justices will tackle affirmative action in two cases brought by “Students for Fair Admissions,” opposing affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. According to its website, this group represents “20,000 students, parents, and others who believe that racial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It takes courage to be an American. Whenever the entire world said that something cannot be done, Americans simply smiled and rolled up their sleeves with a steadfast resolve which non-verbally screamed: “Oh, yeah? Watch me work.” When wrongdoing took place before our eyes or within range of our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, seized headlines over the past couple of weeks because of offensive behavior on social media that lead to social media bans, dropped collaborations, canceled contracts, and public outrage withal. It’s been a frenzied up and down all-around observation in recent days ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Christians often tell me that they’re following the word of God as prescribed in the Bible, and as we all know, they say, the Bible is the word of God. We know that for a fact because the Bible says it’s the word of God in no uncertain terms. In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Those who follow my columns know I have been and am extremely critical of the Republican Party’s and the conservative movement’s continued “ghettoization of the Black voter.” For purposes of this column, I will use the terms Republican Party and conservative interchangeably. Even when Republicans try to do the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Alright, this time I am going to be the first to confess. I am guilty of spoiling my wife. But in my defense, I am as they say in traffic court where I’m from, guilty with an explanation. My parents were married 54 years and every week I saw ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My fellow African Americans, We saw it coming from a distance in the same way that we saw the American mainstream media come after Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, Prince, Kevin Kaepernick, Kevin Samuels, Tommy Sotomayor and anybody else who is a proud black men and women attempting to speak ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Any major political program in the new century should be evaluated by its ability to state the need for a new educational paradigm; one which establishes a constitutional guarantee to education, that de-institutionalizes knowledge and learning, and one which provides all who want to learn with access to learning ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In today’s contemporary times, perhaps it could be said that the n-word is just simply another racial slur or derogatory word. But it is not the contemporary definition of the word which is so controversial; it’s the [historical] baggage that comes along with the word. And though the context ...