(ThyBlackMan.com) I was quite taken aback by something said at last Tuesday’s discussion, The Changing Currents in Haiti: Can the Diaspora Steer the Tide, sponsored by Dr. Natanya Duncan, Director of Africana Studies at Queens College and moderated by Dr. Francois Pierre-Louis. Attorney Leonie Hermantin declared with regards to helping ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In Louisiana, there has been a series of police encounters that have captured our attention. Earlier this year, we were told of Ronald Greene who was tragically killed by Louisiana State Police (LSP) on a dark, secluded backroad in Ouachita Parish. After his killing was made nationwide, there was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To say that our country is not in a very good place right now would be a colossal understatement. We have lost more people to COVID than those who died in the 1918 Spanish Flu: and they never had a vaccine. Wildfires out west are bigger and storms in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This prequel film to the storied HBO cable series The Sopranos generated a lot of publicity with the novelty casting of the late lead actor James Gandolfini’s son Michael as the teen Tony Soprano. Now, fans are primed to watch the young impressionable Tony come of age. Is it worth it? ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “While HBCUs today look quite different from the schools that were founded in the 1800s, HBCUs now find themselves in a continuing conversation on whether these institutions should exist in a post–Brown v. Board of Education and post-Obama environment. The relevancy of HBCUs has been the subject of academic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recent images of US Border Patrol Agents interacting with Haitian immigrants caused shock and stir when juxtaposed against images of Afghani refugees being shuttled onto waiting US military transport planes to he brought to the US and housed courtesy of the US government and taxpayers. The rationale is that these people need to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the best things about sports are the links between the past and the present. A major part of sports are the comparisons between players, teams, and coaches and those comparisons also are regards to the present and the past. 2021 Pro Football of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My good buddy, Winston Churchill once told me, “To every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work, unique to him and fitted to his talents; what a tragedy if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After a year of COVID, TIFF returned as a hybrid festival with in-person screenings in Toronto and digital screenings around the world. A fine selection of African Diaspora films, films with Black actors in their cast and general-release films brought the magic of TIFF alive again. Attica (***1/2) The 1971 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most important reasons to vote Donald Trump out of the White House was to stop him from packing our federal courts with even more anti-voting-rights, anti-equality, pro-corporate judges. Stopping the flood of bad Trump judges was a huge accomplishment for every organizer and voter who helped elect Joe ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Empty Vessels sounds like a cover band, in reality it’s something Rod Serling could narrate for an episode of the Twilight Zone. I would imagine it would go something like this: Picture. The portrait of a lost collection of misfits: Joe Biden, out-of-date, timeworn and a relic of the past, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Senate Major Leader Chuck Schumer angrily said the brutal treatment of Haitian asylum seekers defies common decency. A chorus of Democrats chimed in and called the Border Patrol horseback riding whipping and assaulting of the Haitians much worse. All demanded that the Biden Administration cease and desist the deportation ...