(ThyBlackMan.com) What is soul food to you? In your mind, is soul food synonymous with black people? Mouth-watering Southern cuisine? Fried, smothered, delicious, nutritious? Candied yams and ham hocks. Sweet potato pie’s and smothered pork chops. What about our greens? We have to have our greens! As an on-again, off-again holistic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the Supreme Court decided in favor of the group Citizens United in its lawsuit against the Federal Elections Commission back in 2010, it opened the floodgates allowing money to pour into political campaigns that has continued unabated. Pundits predict that at least a record $5 billion will be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One thing that has become evident over the last nine years: the death of Michael Jackson flipped an ugly narrative on its head. Gone, are the allusions of Jackson as a delusional, reclusive pop star. Instead, he was re-branded the greatest entertainer to ever live. Not that this was a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What is this year’s midterm election about? President Trump wants it to be about him, stumping the country saying that he’s on the ballot. Or that it’s about immigrants, or Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, or tax cuts, or about hurricanes, droughts and catastrophic climate change, or about an economy ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The question of intellectual freedom has always existed within Black America. Even a cursory glance of the storied history of Black America reveals that luminaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois did not always agree, Marcus Garvey and DuBois were often at each others throat, even our beloved ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the attempted assassination of a series of Democratic leaders and the savage murder of 11 worshipers in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in the past week, the American people are witnessing one of the most horrific seasons of hate and terror in recent memory. And, while there ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Obama created a massive political divide between the left and the right we see today. His attacks against the right-wingers created an emboldened electorate, and now the fruits of his rhetoric are seen. President Trump is a result of Obama’s political discourse disguised as executive leadership. However, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) All of us reap what we sow. What goes around also comes around. It’s karma. It’s the boomerang affect. Whatever you want to call it, nobody gets away with anything – not really. Not even the most powerful nation in the world. If I were a Caucasian man of British ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On March 26, 2018, Tech Sideline reporter Ricky LaBlue wrote, “Virginia Tech football’s bowl streak seems to be safe for the foreseeable future.” Mr. LaBlue wrote those words knowing the Hokies lost several key starters to the NFL. He knew the Hokies would be fielding one of its least experienced ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At this writing, Megyn Kelly is off the air at NBC. After her horridly vapid statement saying she didn’t see anything wrong with blackface, she apologized the next day and even invited journalist Roland Martin on to take her to school. Roland did a brilliant job in explaining the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most troubling aspects of Candace Owens’ Blexitmovement and the recent campaign to convince an ascending group of novice political thinkers is that it displays how easy it is to pull the wool over the eyes of a black populace enveloped by a comforting blanket of historical illiteracy. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Barack Obama received praise for his response to the recent murder of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Obama tweeted: “We grieve for the Americans murdered in Pittsburgh. All of us have to fight the rise of anti-Semitism and hateful rhetoric against those who look, love, or pray ...