(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent years, there has been a growing problem with racism in sports. Unfortunately, the United States generally has a big problem with the unfair and unequal treatment of Blacks. Such a situation is also present in the National Football League (NFL), one of the most popular sports competitions ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s Women’s History Month, a time when we celebrate women who have contributed to historical events and to present day society. I love seeing all the social media posts, blogs, events, TV segments and panel discussions that highlight us and our dedication and accomplishments to society. But in this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It just irks me and rattles me to my bones to watch Black people major in the minors and minor in the majors. We have enough negative stereotypes as it is. But this “attitude” thing just kills me. On social media, in person, or wherever I see it. Some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There was a time when the hair and skin care needs of Black people were taken for granted. It has always been the focus of beauty products to cater to the fairer skinned, with the mistaken notion that those with darker skin were less attractive than their light-skinned counterparts. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As many governors, school boards and educational systems are trying to erase history by banning certain books in our schools and public libraries, how powerful to have ABC’s mini-series “Women of the Movement: the story of Mamie Till Mobley,” told at this particular time. Some governors have even said ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While the world has been focused on the growing numbers of COVID-19 causalities, the media has somewhat ignored the long-term educational and economic impacts of the pandemic – especially for Black students. Although there has been some attention given to the disparities between Black Americans and other groups contracting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I hate to rush but according to the GPS, I would only be two minutes late. That wasn’t bad but I wasn’t prepared for an accident to happen. In my haste, I panicked and decided to jump on another freeway thinking I can just loop around and miss the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a particular pain, and scaring, that takes place where there seems to be no place to call home. Regardless of parentage, and blood lines, when you can’t physically or internally head home everything is out of place. In the quest to find out people, in this case ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “More than 300 years ago, courageous Africans escaped from enslavement in British colonies. They fled southward on foot to Spanish St. Augustine, crossing swamps and dense tropical forests. Along they way, they sought assistance from Natives, thus creating the first ‘underground railroad’”. The Fort Mose Story (—– Most people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (**) The title spills the beans. In this sci-fi yarn, the filmmakers weren’t happy enough with a natural disaster: the moon hurtling towards earth. They had to add an outrageous AI storyline that makes what could have been a worthy, mildly plausible, catastrophic and action-filled movie a joke. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The public needs straight talk about what’s happening in Eastern Europe. President Joe Biden and the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson need to level with their own countrymen about the rising risk of war against Russia. The public’s getting double talk — praise for the Ukrainians’ courage but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It hasn’t been that long ago since the Georgia Bulldogs won the College Football Playoff and South Carolina State defeated Jackson State to win the Black College Football National Championship. Over the past couple of years, Jackson State football has gotten a lot of the HBCU football attention due ...