(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember watching late-night television ads that solicited donations for inhabitants of foreign countries trapped in misfortune and suffering the deprivation of what could only be called fundamental human necessities — adequate food and clean water. My stomach would churn, and my heart would ache every time I saw the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Trump seemingly couldn’t make up his mind whether he wanted his two GOP Senate contenders to win the Georgia Senate seats or not. He badmouthed the GOP governor. He took a shot at one of the GOP contenders as not the best pick, since he didn’t pick her. He ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every family has their own set of classic holiday movies to check off the list when the season approaches. There’s nothing more nostalgic than watching your favorite holiday movies by the fire, quoting memorable lines and reminiscing about fun from holiday seasons past. Staying in, social distancing and smaller ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2020 presidential election is one for the history books. President-Elect Joe Biden had: The largest number of votes ever cast for Presidential candidate (over 80 million). The biggest win over an incumbent president since Roosevelt over Hoover in 1932; and The highest election turnout, by percentage of registered ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First, you may be thinking, what do I mean a third depression? So let me rephrase it. We have had only one depression that we all know of, the Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 through the late 1930s. I’ll discuss the other one later. I fear that if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Earlier this week, ESPN aired, the one-hour documentary The Undefeated Presents Tiger Woods: America’s Son. It was a fascinating look at golf’s historically bad treatment of Black golfers, Tiger Woods’ impact and history with race, and explored “Woods’ historic win at The Masters in 1997 – becoming the first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, I first played The Demo Version of The highly anticipated sequel to the first Hyrule Warriors game and also serves as a prequel that takes place 100 years before the events of “Breath Of The Wild” called “Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity” Note: While playing a demo of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) She had an enigmatic presence. A unique, restrained voice with distinctive phrasing. Wrote and sang the iconic protest song “Strange Fruit.” That’s her. Billie Holiday. Lady Day. Died too young and now a faint memory. Eleanora Fagan was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia and died July 17, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s a month for the letter “P,” as in, “The president is preparing to get pitched out of public housing and is proffering preemptive pardons to his progeny.” Or, for a more proper association, the simple word “pork.” Oh, sure, my country wallows in a perfect Third World purgatory, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) AUDACITY: Boldness, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought or other restrictions; Effrontery or insolence; Shameless boldness. In the region of my birth, people reared there are familiar with the Presidential Pardon. We associate “the act of pardon” with French pirates Jean and Pierre Lafitte who were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Voters between 18 and 29 made history in the 2020 election. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, or CIRCLE, at least 52 percent of them, and perhaps as many as 55 percent voted. That turnout is at least ten percentage points higher ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Byron Allen is someone who should be familiar to Thy Black Man readers. He began his comedy career in the 1970s at 14 and made his TV debut in 1979 after being discovered by Jimmie Walker. In modern memory, he is better known as a businessman and TV exec. ...