(ThyBlackMan.com) Evaluating the benchmark hires of Sandra Douglass Morgan in NFL and Mike Grier in NHL by Mark Hines There is no shortage of people of color playing professional sports. Most of the biggest names in professional sports are non-white athletes like LeBron James, Serena Williams, Lamar Jackson, and Fernando ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Unquestionably, Venus and Serena Williams revolutionized women’s tennis. With serves that approached the speed of light, fantastic agility, exceptional athleticism, and the grace of gazelles, they changed how women played tennis. Furthermore, they were outspoken about issues like pay equity, advocating that women tennis players should earn as much ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black America lives in a series of deserts. Many of us live in food deserts, financial deserts, employment deserts, and most of us live in information deserts. And just as Black bodies suffer from the lack of proper nourishment in food deserts, Black minds suffer from the lack of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans have involuntary been elected to be the ambassadors of fried chicken. The stereotype of our love of the seasoned, crispy, and moist bird does hold some truth. Social media is flooded with clips of angry African Americans, throwing temper tantrums upon hearing their local Popeye’s is out ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I made this demand three weeks before the murderous crash that wiped out the lives of multiple persons, including, most heartbreaking a pregnant mother and her one-year-old child. That the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, the CHP, the L.A. County Sheriffs, and the L.A. County Department of Public Works ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First of all, we must understand that the majority of white Americans but more so white American men like Tucker Carlson are infected with the disease of madness, insanity, insecurity, fear and the shortcoming of having a small private part; Therefore, they live in a constant state of paranoia ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s just be honest. The only reason people were brought from Africa to America was to be slaves. That is the ugly truth. And as I heard an extremely accurate, blunt, prolific and timely message given about this by a young Caucasian man recently, I was practically speechless as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Teaching children may be the highest way to seek God. It is, however, also the most daunting way, in the sense of the greatest responsibility.” — Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature For many children and families the last weeks of summer are winding down now, but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There have been innumerable debates on gun ownership. These discussions generally address two critical factors: gun violence in inner cities and mass shootings. As a result, some Americans have called for the removal of certain weapons, such as the AR-15, from civilian ownership, and the limitation of magazines to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The phrase “living legend” isn’t reserved for everyone. It means that a person’s accomplishments have been so outstanding and historic that even among their status among the living that their name and legacy belong along the greats who preceded them. Basketball legend Bill Russell was truly a living legend ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Gun violence prevention reality: Gun violence affects society in many ways, including higher medical costs, reductions in quality of life because of fear of gun violence and stresses on the already fragile criminal justice system. The United States has the highest rate of gun-related injuries among developed nations, as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As one of the Founding Fathers, there is an obvious question always asked about Thomas Jefferson. How can a person fight for freedom for oneself and simultaneously deny freedom for others? How can Jefferson write the powerful words, “All men are created equal” as part of the Declaration of Independence, ...