(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’ve recently purchased a vinyl banner, you’ll be wondering about the best way to hang it! The good news is that there are many ways to hang a banner, and regardless of if you’re attaching it to a wall, fence, or anything else, there will be the right ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The brutal political fact of life is that Joe Biden won’t get Trump out of the White House by non-stop screaming what a petty, racist, corrupt, misogynist, screw up he is. These epithets and more have been hurled at Trump every second he has been in the White House. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Aug. 8, President Trump instituted four executive actions in the ongoing battle against COVID-19. One of the four was a memorandum instituting a deferment on the collection of payroll taxes of certain employees. There is a great deal of confusion about what this means. Let’s break this down ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the many benefits of teaching at an HBCU is that it forces you to remain abreast of popular culture trends. There is rarely a week that passes that some new “trend” reminds me that I am now a middle-aged man who has almost, I do emphasize almost, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the world has grown closer through the internet; our shared concerns as Americans, regardless of race, have also brought us closer together. With an Economic Downturn sitting on our doorstep, due to the COVID 19 pandemic, working class Americans have the same issues, in common; job security, money, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For most of the country, we are about a month away from the 2020-21 school year starting. Parents are deciding on the important decision of what to do with their child regarding in-person schooling amid a pandemic that continues to affect thousands and kill large amounts of people on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) COVID-19 has introduced new words and actions into our church vocabulary…. Livestreaming, Social Distancing, Facebook Live, Zoom, Cyber Services, Digital Divide, Facial Coverings, Mobile Financial Apps, YouTube Services, and Parking Lot services. Religious institutions are having to improvise, adapt, and use alternative methods to reach their respective congregations due ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rachael Dolezal, the former head of the Spokane, Washington NAACP who was ‘outed’ passing for black has a book out. Her memoir is, “In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World”. On a Today Show interview about the book, and her life, she said, “I ...