(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the NBA’s greatest strengths compared to other professional sports leagues is how close the fans are to the athletes in physical proximity. NBA fans can literally sit courtside and be within feet of some of the greatest athletes in the world as they compete on the court. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Something is very different about what is happening with the women’s movement this time. It’s not that the energy or enthusiasm around it is more broadly sustained and embraced. It’s something more fundamental, that has been missing in previous iterations of women’s rights movements. The recent remarks by Ruth Bader ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Writing this week for the New York Post, columnist Michael Goodwin outlined the ramifications of the release of a hotly contested, recently declassified House memo that covers aspects of the federal government illegally spying on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. I say “outlined” rather than “detailed” because although Goodwin’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Which alleged “racist xenophobe” made these statements about illegal immigration? “Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Christians often tell me that they’re following the word of God as prescribed in the Bible, and as we all know, they say, the Bible is the word of God. We know that for a fact because the Bible says it’s the word of God in no uncertain terms. . ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From the moment the words Oakland, CA crawled across the bottom of the screen at the beginning of Marvel’s long awaited Black Panther movie, I knew this was going to be a different type of super hero movie. While many of the folks who have been freaking out over Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the major problems that we have in the Black community is a failure to recognize our own intellect. We fail to realize that having to deal with adversity from the time we wake up in the morning until the time we close our eyes at night has made ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I grew in, what felt like, a larger world. Long distance calls were quite expensive, and if you wanted to see someone you had to travel to where they were. Communication was real-time, and over the telephone. I remember having pen pals, and I was rather excited to get my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History selects a theme for Black History Month. This year, the theme, African Americans in Times of War, is meant to commemorate the end of World War I, the war that supposedly made the world “safe for democracy”. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some people have called for a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution as a means of reining in a big-spending Congress. That’s a misguided vision, for the simple reason that in any real economic sense, as opposed to an accounting sense, the federal budget is always balanced. The value of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If history is any indication, Republicans could be in for a nasty November. The party of first-term presidents almost always loses House seats in the midterm elections — and having an especially controversial and polarizing president in the White House probably won’t help Republicans. But the GOP just might have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Reflections of a proud father: My daughter Kathryn, declared once she graduated from kindergarten, “girls can do anything dad; one day I’m gonna be a doctor!” I responded incredulously, you go girl!” I shall revisit this premise again at the close of this article. One need only look to ...