(ThyBlackMan.com) I guess that it is a good thing to be reminded that being a black man in America comes at an extreme cost to one’s identity. As I have mentioned in this space previously, there are times that I feel like Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Now, I do not want ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A pioneer is “a person or group that originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development”. In sports, pioneers are often viewed as people who make innovations or breakthroughs in how a sport is played or how the business ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, leading to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, has thrown progressives, the Democratic Party and the news media into an out-and-out tizzy. The online magazine Slate declared, “Anthony Kennedy Just Destroyed His Legacy as a Gay Rights Hero.” The New York ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Paul Porter has been in the music industry, and apart of radio, for what seems like more than a lifetime. He has watched the music change, and the industry itself as the goal became get money at all cost. In his book “Blackout: My 40yrs in the Music Business” he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One Black woman told me, “Barack Obama didn’t do anything for us because he didn’t give us jobs or provide housing.” That woman wasn’t out of a job because of what Barack Obama failed to do, she’s out of a job because of what SHE’S failing to do. Barack Obama ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Immigrant children have been ripped from the arms of their parent’s arms and detained in cages at our borders. Muslims have been effectively banned from entering America from certain countries. Businesses have been given autonomy to determine if they want to serve LGBTQ couples. NFL players have been villainized as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the house and senate races, Democrats are stealthily pouring tons of money early to demonize Republican candidates before our supporters become engaged. Once our candidate has been branded the spawn-of-Satan before campaigning really begins, it is extremely challenging to change voter’s perception of them. My wife Mary and I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over this past week there were news stories that exemplified the best, and the worst, of human behavior. As we applaud the best among us, unfortunately, we are reminded of the basest instincts and actions of people and nations as well. The Good: The rescue of twelve boys and their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes the path to entrepreneurship is found in the simple things we love in our life. While it is great to get an education and make moves in corporate America you don’t have to give up the idea of owning a business of your own. So many brothers and sisters ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The crusading journalist, Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862. Although she made her mark as a journalist, she was also a social worker, advocate, feminist, and organization leader. She too often gets short shrift in history, mainly because she did not go along to get along with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I guess that the movement of school districts throughout the nation to begin scouring the nation for African-American males to populate their classrooms as teachers is at least a small admission that Black Male Teachers matter. Considering the historic resistance of any admission regarding the worth and utility of black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After a recent conversation with a male student who by all indications decided to turn his back on the extraordinary opportunities available to young black males, I could do little more than sigh and recite Napoleon Bonaparte’s infamous quote that “In this life, we are either kings or pawns, emperors ...