(ThyBlackMan.com) William Jackson and Aida Correa, KidsCamp Organizers for KidsCamp Orlando 2018 incorporated an initiative of STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts Math) into the KidsCamp curriculum they created. The 16 kids that attended KidsCamp Orlando, Florida, ages 7 to 12, participated in projects that required completing individual and group projects based ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is very appropriate that from this cradle of the Confederacy, this very heart of the great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us time and again down through history. Let us rise to the call for freedom-loving blood ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I reflected on the year in politics from 2018, it dawned on me that the most under reported story of last year was the Black vote; and not for the reasons you might think. According to Pew Research, “Blacks voted [in the 2018 elections] overwhelmingly (90%) for the Democratic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democrat Nancy Pelosi said Trump’s border wall is immoral and too expensive. Hearing Pelosi lecture Trump and the American people about morality is beyond repulsive. Pelosi, her fellow Democrats and fake news media seek to prevent our side from using the word “morality” in the political arena. Any Republican and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Malcolm X was a Muslim minister and human rights activist. Born in 1925, he met his death at the hands of an assassin in 1965. Malcolm X was a courageous advocate for black civil rights, but unlike Martin Luther King, he was not that forgiving of whites for their crimes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The moment that the trailer for If Beale Street Could Talk began, my spirit leapt for joy as I realized that the story unfolding on the screen was James Baldwin’s classic story of Love and Blackness in a nation that routinely seeks to stomp out the latter in a desperate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Prior to Christmas 2018, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban decided to play the role of the Grinch with some words while complementing European basketball and arguably back-handing American basketball and NBA players. Cuban’s team, the Dallas Mavericks, have one of the most exciting young NBA players in rookie Luka Doncic, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bennett College for Women is an oasis where we educate and celebrate women, and develop them into twenty-first-century leaders and global thinkers. That was my elevator speech in the five years, from 2007 through 2012, when I led the college. It is still an oasis, a safe space for Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am always suspicious when someone asks, “May, I ask you a question?” So, I hope it is understandable when a caller into the blog talk radio show “Who Did It To You?” issued that specific request that I prepared for the worst. It has been my experience that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What happens after the government shut down? When the new US Congress convenes in January of 2019, the Democrats will have a House majority. And with that new power, there is one mission which should be at the top of their to-do list: Reinstatement of The Voting Rights Act of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During one of his brilliant rhetorical flourishes, Malcolm X advised Blacks to do the following, “go outside and look up your block and down your block and tell me what it is that you see. I don’t want you to think that you are some hard luck case or something.” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What’s next? One of the first things I heard about this week was a group of high schoolers in New Hampshire feeling okay with joining the nastiness of the person living in the White House. I guess their music was inspired by #45’s crude behavior and his entertaining a ‘gangsta’ ...