(ThyBlackMan.com) As time moves on, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick continues to proven correct about police brutality in America regarding black people. Kaepernick’s protest was all about police brutality and injustice against black people in America which led to him sitting and later kneeling during the playing of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the recent murder of George Floyd in Minnesota last week, I have found this to be a great time to be an American. As a matter of fact, I am proud to be an American! Floyd was a forty-six-year-old Black man who was callously murdered on videotape for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I do not advocate violence, but apparently those police officers and racists who kill black people every week don’t agree. Yet when we African-Americans give back what is dished out to us, we are not only the victims but we are also labeled as the villains. And while people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The apartment complex that I live in is next to one of the most affluent and well-known neighborhoods in the city. The community is just over two and a half miles long, and it is become home to my college town coaches and big shots. I have been making ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) William Jackson of My Quest to Teach and Aida Correa of Love Built Life are educators, business owners, STREAM activists that are honoring graduating 5th grade students from Crown Point Elementary School and Venetia Elementary School with academic awards and SWAG from business sponsors of global technology conferences. William, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit inner-city urban kids disproportionately and has led K-12 educators and administrators to direct many elementary and secondary schools to remain closed indefinitely. To ensure children are not deprived of important knowledge, the classes and assessments have been switched to an online ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here we go again, Ahmad Aubrey and George Floyd. I told everyone this would keep happening, that it happens more often that you know. That it could happen to ANY African-American. And that without video of these murders, nothing would have been done. So here we are right back ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Because Major League Baseball has so much focus on analytics and sabermetrics within the front office, it is not easy for casual sports fans to identify some of the most well known general managers or team presidents. Recognizable names making personnel decisions for MLB teams includes Theo Epstein of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Brrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! The above word is the first line of Richard Wright’s novel, Native Son. The famed Chicago Renaissance writer intended for the ringing alarm clock to serve the purpose that all alarm clocks serve, to wake this nation up. From Wright’s perspective, America needed to be awaken to its Race problem. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sunday, Memorial Day weekend, was a beautiful sunny day. Mary and I left our West Virginia home to make the 40-mile trek to Walmart and Home Depot in Virginia. We drove past a Virginia megachurch which usually has state cops directing traffic for the congregation. The parking lot was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you think about it, even a broke clock is correct twice a day. Those are comforting thoughts in the wake of realizing that I agree with Senator Tim Scott’s comments during a Fox News interview. According to the Republican Senator from South Carolina, I am just amazed that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Isn’t it obvious that Joe Biden and most white Democrats hold black Americans in absolute contempt? It is easy to understand why, human nature being as it is. It was the Democratic Party that enslaved, lynched and raped black Americans. They said that black people were inferior, unwanted and ...