(ThyBlackMan.com) Wake up everybody! While it’s a great time for us to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the horrific “Black Wall Street” massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma we must look forward. I can’t tell you how angry I am that this part of our nation’s history was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I write this as an infectious disease scientist and not as an American or black man. For nearly two decades, I was a research scientist and on faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. My peers and colleagues consider me more than reputable in my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Black Men, Greetings Gents. I hope this letter finds you in good health. I’m doing fine. Thanks for asking. I recently had my hair braided for the first time. Besides the pain and itching; I’m enjoying the style. I did notice that I have more grey hairs than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s been six months since the Biden-Harris administration began, ushering in an era of hope after four bitter and disheartening years. We have much to celebrate. At the same time, there are ways in which our future is wavering on a knife’s edge: will we fulfill the promise of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We’ve become so inured to Donald Trump’s proto-fascism that we barely blink an eye when we learn that he tried to manipulate the 2020 election. Yet the most recent revelation should frighten every American to their core. On Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27 December telephone call ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With few exceptions, every four years citizens of the world revel in the pomp, ceremonies, and athletic excellence of the Olympic Games. Something in the human spirit admires the competition of the games and, for that moment in time, the emergence of the best athletes. Like many this year, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First, it was Juneteenth. Now it’s Willie O’Ree. Let’s take both and then try to see what the GOP is up to. Remember seeming from nowhere all fifty GOP senators enthusiastically signed off on legislation that made Juneteenth an official national holiday. That’s the day that slaves in Texas ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ll tell you, one of the most divisive statements that serve no purpose other than to disrupt Black solidarity is the old refrain that Black folks are not monolithic. This statement is one of the few that possesses the power to be simultaneously partially true and partially false. Now, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Despair is worse after a brief period of hope. I don’t know about you, but I was elated earlier this spring when it seemed as if Trump and COVID were gone, and Biden seemed surprisingly able to get the nation rapidly back on track. Now much is sliding backwards. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued more guidance, this time to put our masks back on indoors with potentially unvaccinated people because you might transmit the virus to them. And those unvaccinated people are the ones crowding the hospitals. They are a danger to themselves and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For decades, communist China has been wielding its influence in African countries, establishing strong financial interests and working to convince growing nations that its authoritarian communism is a better form of government than democratic models of individual liberty and economic freedom. While not a typical kitchen-table issue for Americans, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a long-standing tradition to air the national anthem prior to kickoff at football games. Now, the NFL has decided to follow this tradition by playing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is known traditionally to many Black Americans as the Black national anthem. The song was originally ...