(ThyBlackMan.com) The funeral of my dad, Dr Rev Lloyd E. Marcus, was July 7, 2018. My sister told everyone she was wearing a yellow dress to Dad’s funeral because we wanted it to be a celebration of Dad’s extraordinary life and homecoming. Yellow represents bright sunshine. She also chose it to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret that President Trump has shaken up the Washington, DC establishment in his first 500 days in office. His less than conventional administration is clearly less worried about political niceties and protocol and is squarely focused on creating millions of new jobs. The Trump economy is squashing unemployment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Remember when or if you misbehaved in school and you got sent to the detention room after school, completed an in-school suspension which was torture if you were a popular student or if you were on a first name basis by the principal, you were sent to their office, immediately? ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For as long as many people of color can remember, succeeding generations have called for justice. Despite these age-old pleas, justice is not only elusive, but frustrating since the enactment of a series of civil rights laws. Despite federal guarantees of equal treatment, much of Black America experiences something short ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we churn through primary season, laying the framework for November’s elections, we’re seeing the emergence of a new face of the Democratic Party – more progressive, more left-wing. The Democratic Party is delivering more candidates around the nation like Stacey Abrams, recently nominated for governor in Georgia. She’s unabashedly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the last few weeks, three black motorists, including an NAACP chapter president, made blatantly false allegations against perfectly courteous police officers. Now who’s “racially profiling”? First, in Timmonsville, S.C., local NAACP President the Rev. Jerrod Moultrie put up a lengthy post on his Facebook page: “Tonight, I was racially ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) News Flash: “Black” lives now going for 4 cents. Recently a “black” man, husband and father in Florida by the name of Gregory Hill was shot and killed at his home by a “white” deputy. And even though a jury found the deputy partially liable, Gregory Hill’s family was awarded ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Empathy: 1. The imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it. 2. The capacity for participation in another’s feelings or ideas. The stories dominating the news cycle and generating outrage last week were about two comediennes, Roseanne Barr and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jesse Duplantis, fake Evangelist and Bible con man, says God told him to believe for a new jet that just happens to cost $54 million. And get who he expects to pay for it? The unsuspecting, gullible followers of his false doctrine. But Jesse is only one of the fake ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1952, I was 5 years old when I walked into the kitchen of our 6th floor apartment in the Baltimore government projects. Dad stood as Mom sat at the table with a spoon in her hand tapping on a glass. Mom was preparing Dad to take the test to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NFL…Home to one of the most cherished professional sports leagues; not only in the United States but across the globe. Recently the owners of the NFL Franchises approved a new rule that will see players fined if they protest during the National Anthem. Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With a number of critical decisions set to be released by the Supreme Court this month, one in particular could have wide-ranging impact on our economy and on the very principle of federalism. In South Dakota v. Wayfair, the Court will decide whether to uphold its earlier decision that states ...