(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the biggest storylines of the upcoming 2022 NFL season is that some notable and accomplished quarterbacks are playing for new teams this year. Indianapolis’s Matt Ryan and Denver’s Russell Wilson are playing for new teams this season despite rewriting the passing record books for their previous franchises ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jesus said, “I am the light of the world.” (John 8:12) Many times people are asked the question, “Are you saved?” “Have you been born again?” “Have you received salvation?” Each and every individual in the world today needs to understand that God has a plan for his or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As college students settle into campus life, many Black Americans remember the multi-generational sacrifices that have established higher education as a bridge to a better life. Despite the continuing pandemic, the rise of inflation, or the nation’s $1.7 trillion in student debt, parents, grandparents and others urge their students ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Charles Diggs, Jr. won election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city of Detroit had at least one Black member of Congress. That’s likely to change this year. Because of redistricting, Detroit no longer has majority-Black congressional districts. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s been a growing worker union movement in 2022. Workers are turning to labor unions at traditionally non-union companies like Trader Joe’s, Amazon, REI, Target, Chipotle, Starbucks, Apple, and more. “Seventy-one percent of Americans now approve of labor unions,” Gallup announced in reference to its annual Work and Education ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been debating the pros and cons of the impact of sports on the Black community with my good friend, and political commentator, Playthell Benjamin for several years now. Playthell is a huge sports fan and is of the belief that sports have been invaluable in their impact on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us could live a whole lifetime and have no discussions about the calculations surrounding our unemployment rates. The subject of Job Rates generally comes up, if there are projected layoffs, in our immediate future. That makes sense because of the economic upheaval a job loss causes, in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Benefits of a long life include lived memory and perspective. Today, it is easy to despair about America – with its extreme inequality, its continuing racial divide, its fragile democracy, Its partisan feuds, and the shaky state of an economy hammered by pandemic and catastrophic climate change. Yet it’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You can bet on it. The “it” is that on the twenty-first anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks the conspiracy theorists will again come out of the woodwork with the many commemorations and memorial tributes scheduled. The mountain of uncontestable facts about who the 9/11 perpetrators were and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Homosapiens are habitual creatures who mostly run on autopilot. As children, humans are exposed to behaviors and constructs that define their sense of normalcy. Tragically, Black men have been directly and indirectly taught behaviors that often lead to habits that derail progress and stunt potential. Now more than ever, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today so many of our people in the African American community have forgotten the meaning of family. The meaning that our grandmothers, grandfathers and their parents understood. Almost all of us can sit back and tell “I remember when” stories. But what are we doing to make bring the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nothing brings a community together like the struggle for social justice. Being side by side in the trenches for a collective good is something that many people within the black community have done for a very long time. Our communities have often become stronger from the shared struggle that ...