(ThyBlackMan.com) Can you believe that Jay-Z is still occupying a space in rap at the age of 48? A couple of Friday’s ago, Jay-Z, paired with his wife Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, released a duet album titled EVERYTHING IS LOVE. The nine-track album completed the trilogy released over the past two years on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1852, Frederick Douglas posed a question that reverberates to this day: What, to the slave, is your Fourth of July? Some thirteen years later, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the 3.5 million southern slaves. As a result, according to When the Fourth of July Was a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) WordCamp Calgary surrounded by mountains that take your breath away. The scenery could not properly be captured in photos or video to truly display the splendor and magnificence of natural formations reaching thousands of feet into blue skies that seem to magically hold puffs of fluffy white and gray clouds. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m sure President Obama’s heart was in the right place. A few years ago, his Department of Education, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, studied school discipline data and came to a troubling conclusion: African American students in the 2011-12 school year had been suspended or expelled at a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Father’s Day is a very hard day for me as I miss my father more than I have the words to convey. I try to channel that energy into celebrating fathers and what they mean to community and family. There are so many brothers that are amazing fathers to their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I wish that I could have dismissed the ridiculous assertion as yet another occasion of “Uncle Remus” taking over the spirit of yet another black man. This “Uncle Remus” tale was outlandish as all of the other theories regarding why black women cannot find a “good black man”; however, this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans in name only (RINOs), notwithstanding, Democrats haven’t just lost their minds – they can only be described as loathsome and duplicitous, if not the personification of evil. And yet they consider themselves the arbiters of morals and moral standards. Even if the idea of morality could be loosely applied ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Racial bigotry is analogous to a train that makes periodic stops along a well-worn path. This train is a familiar site for indigenous populations, persons of African descent, Hispanics, and to poor whites. Although many have chosen to forget the roots of America’s new immigrants — the Irish, Russian, Italian, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us are watching the direction the country is headed. We don’t know what the full ramifications of this administration will be on everyday necessities for Americans. Many of us know someone that is dependent on the government for something. While we are pushing self sufficiency financially and in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The University of Maryland is one of the most recognizable universities on the East Coast. Located in College Park, Maryland, it is the largest university in the state and the largest in the Washington metropolitan area. There are opportunities to get a quality education in many areas at the University ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A new study on racial disparities in police conduct found that differences in offending by suspects, not racism, explains officers’ responses. In the study “Is There Evidence of Racial Disparity in Police Use of Deadly Force?” professors from Michigan State and Arizona State universities analyzed officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On the average day, I will guess that I come across at lease one self-proclaimed “Black Revolutionary.” You know the type of self-proclaimed arm chair revolutionary that I speak of. Everyone, except for those who are truly fortunate, have had the misfortune meeting at least one of the alluded to ...