(ThyBlackMan.com) In the most popular music genre in the world, everyone is divided on the topic of what makes a great album and why this album is better than that album. Although there is no absolute right or wrong answer and everyone’s opinion is valid, there is a few things ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Few people in our nation’s history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we’re in now,” President Biden said referring to the ongoing coronavirus. This is an accurate statement, but many American historians would say that is why there is an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From 2005 to 2009, returning to the states after living and working in South Africa, I ran a Blog talk radio show with a friend of mine who lived in Panama at the time (RIP Kelso). The majority of what we discussed was foreign policy as it related to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are living sports legends among us right now. Among retired former athletes, there are a select small number of former athletes who emanate greatness based on their athletic exploits and the way they carry themselves when they are seen in public or even on the television screen at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In his famed 1963 address, Martin Luther King, Jr. is renowned for one stanza more than most: “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” If you have any common sense at all it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Our Responsibility is more than putting a ball in a basket” Kobe Bryant It’s hard to believe. But yes, it’s been one year since the death of Kobe Bryant. The pain of that is still very much there. A year later, my two greatest enduring and life affirming memories ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Joe Biden minced no words when asked about reparations for Blacks during an address to an audience in Spartanburg South Carolina during the Democratic primary contest there last February. “I support that study (of reparations) — let’s see where that takes us.” Fast forward five months to July. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) DeWayne Carter is one of the most prolific rappers ever. Some people may even say that he is the greatest of all time. That is a discussion for another day. Today, we are taking a look at a very small, although most important part of Lil Waynes album and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The same discrimination many black Americans have experienced from Haitians, Cubans, Dominicans, etc. is the same discrimination that I experienced from black Americans even though I’m black American. And it pisses me off to this same day what I went through with black Americans. I went through discrimination from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ray Charles could have seen this coming; the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. Nor was this a singular terrifying event in American history. Study up on Colfax, Louisiana in 1873 and Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898. And this is not the first time a president has been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The District of Columbia has 715,000 residents, more than the states of Wyoming and Vermont. We pay taxes, just like citizens in all 50 states. But our citizens are second-class citizens. We have no voting representation in the House of Representatives or the United States Senate. We have taxation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rather than focus on recent violence that ravaged the Nation’s Capitol, I’ll celebrate Black women! It would be easy to join with others who’re still attempting to provide an accurate explanation for the madness. To that subject, for the time being, I’ll only say that because of the current political ...