(ThyBlackMan.com) “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired” (Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964) Taking a stand for justice comes with a hefty price tag. If you happen to be a black pro athlete, the cost might be your career. Muhammad Ali, one of pro boxing’s greatest athletes, is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Can You Feel Me?” a song written by James Patrick Stuart will be featured on ABC’s General Hospital on Thursday, August 20. When Valentin, played by Stuart, takes the stage at the 2020 Nurses Ball, his vocals will be backed up on the track by the gorgeous tones of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Be as separate as the fingers in the things that are individual to you but in things common to us all as a people, we must join those fingers as a fist under one God, one aim, one destiny. ~ Booker T. Washington Preceding the Hip-hop era African Americans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In this article I am going to tell you what is really going on. The facts based on verifiable evidence, not conspiracy theories – though sometimes conspiracy theories are very true. I am going to tell you what the doctors (and others) do not want you to know. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last time, we went into five metal albums for our fellow nerds, Blerds, geeks, and gamers. That list was leaned more towards fantasy fans so here are seven more metal albums for nerds—with more sci-fi themes. A Refresher on Speed Metal and Power Metal Speed metal is basically traditional ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is Joe Biden forfeiting the law-and-order issue to Donald Trump? So it would seem. “Republicans Use Law and Order As Rallying Cry” was the top headline on The New York Times’ front-page story on Vice President Mike Pence’s acceptance speech at Fort McHenry Wednesday night. The Wall Street Journal Page One headline ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the smoke clears following Donald Trump’s re-election, revealing the shattered ruins of the Democrats’ hopes and dreams of implementing their own Lil’ Venezuela in the Land of the Free, all the smart blue check Twitter people will be rubbing their heads – sissy drinks make for the worst ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Norman Mailer used to say, when he was upright, that Americans tend to admire their politicians, if for nothing else, for getting older. That, I think, explains the nomination for president of the United States of former Vice President Joe Biden. He did not only get older; he got ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The works of Jamaican renaissance man Marcus Garvey have influenced seminal figures like Malcolm X, Walter Rodney, Frantz Fanon, Bob Marley, Kwame Nkrumah, Min. Louis Farrakhan, Nelson Mandela, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Martin Luther King Jr., Ho Min Chin, Fred Hampton, Assata Shakur, Steve Biko, Elijah Muhammad, Mutabaruka, Fela ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Throughout the week of the Democratic National Convention, the word “empathy” came up again and again. Empathy is one of seven virtues I wrote about in a book for my children. No one spoke of virtue, though. It seems the very idea of virtue is quaint, if not archaic. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everyone knows that Trump will turn the 2020 presidential campaign into the dirtiest, vilest, non-stop attack leaden campaign in U.S. history. Everyone knows that because Donald Trump virtually told us. He has called Biden and Harris every name in the book and hurled every insult he could think of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2020 Democratic National Convention recently ended and without a doubt one of the main topics was the presence of newly chosen Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of talk about history as it relates to Harris, who became ...