(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’ ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is estimated that more than 40 percent of women are now the breadwinners for the families and that the number of women who are staying home full-time has drastically decreased. In fact, many of the women who are stay at home moms, have found companies from which they can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As this year closes and a new year approaches, our tendency will be to make resolutions. I do not challenge any person who makes resolutions – my goal is to help you keep them! Make it personal; promise yourself more than resolving within yourself and hold the person in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many gaping mouths, including embittered and now unemployed never-Trumpers, made breathless claims Thursday about the president lying to the troops. Naturally, these claims were then echoed across liberal media. But he didn’t. They claimed he bald-faced disrespected and lied to their faces while visiting them in Iraq (something many of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If Democrats are optimistic as 2019 begins, it is understandable. Their victory on Nov. 6, adding 40 seats and taking control of the House of Representatives, was impressive. And with the party’s total vote far exceeding the GOP total, in places it became a rout. In the six New England ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I do have a certain degree of respect for Lebron James even though I haven’t always agreed with his stances on certain issues such as doing a cop-out regarding the murder of Tamir Rice by the occupying colonial military force in America known as the police. Recently, veteran NBA star ...