(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t know about all of you, but it feels to me like Christmas came early this year. Electing a new president and vice president was a gift that 81 million Americans gave to ourselves and to one another. Every court rejection of Trump’s bogus stolen election claims was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The concept of time was different in 2020 than any other year in recent memory. It was a year that was both incredibly long and short. The entire world has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Millions of people have died, been physically impaired, and have suffered personal, emotional, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One respondent to a Facebook poll in which I again asked, “Now that there’s the likelihood of a COVID vaccine soon will you get vaccinated?” flatly said, “I won’t be a Guinea pig for whites.” The grim sickness, hospitalization and death figures from COVID-19 are endlessly looped on nightly newscasts and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The selection of California Senator Kamala Harris to join and then win the nation’s Vice-Presidency gave unprecedented hope to Black women across the nation. Not only had a woman broken a glass ceiling in professional development; she was also Black and a graduate of Howard University, one of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “My heart also instructs me in the night seasons…” (Psalm 16:7) The year 2020 has been as confounding as any year we have ever imagined. No one would have ever expected the onset of a global pandemic and all its economic impact. So how do we get ready to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Passing the love of jazz on to a younger generation, cloaked in the sweetness of an animated movie, is a genius move. It’s a bit jarring. A New York City middle school band is murdering the Disney song “When You Wish Upon a Star.” By the time they’re through, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not a scientist. I’m not an infectious disease expert, let alone one of those who led the fight against AIDS. So I have to depend on experts. And luckily for me, there is no debate among experts on the subject of vaccinations. I know I will get furious ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to the COVID vaccines. I’m not talking about the fact that they are struggling to try to find a way to steal credit for it — the media will help with that — I’m talking about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If we have learned anything from the year of the lockdown – 2020 – it is this: Toxic people are everywhere! They are in relationships. They are in family. They are in our social networks. And, if you are not careful, they can be in you! While it did ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The instant that Joe Biden tapped California Senator Kamala Harris as his VP running mate, the murmur was: Who will fill her seat if Biden wins? Should it be a Black woman because Harris is a Black woman? Should it be a Latino because California has never had a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The year 2019 was marked by ceremonies on both sides of the Atlantic commemorating 400 years since the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the English colony of Virginia. And it was especially poignant that the current Lt. Governor of Virginia, Justin Fairfax, with the manumission papers of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Knowing African Americans were adversely impacted by this pandemic, and the fact a vaccine is within reach, it seems ironic that people are hesitant to be inoculated. Why would people of color, who are disproportionately affected, seem fearful about receiving a potential drug that could protect them against this ...