(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most prestigious awards that an NFL player can earn is the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award. Although the Most Valuable Player or the Defensive Player of the Year awards often get more publicity, any NFL player would truly be proud to earn the NFL’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democratic party officials set up a huge table outside a voting precinct in Helena in Shelby County just south of Birmingham. They didn’t try to hide who they were making their vote pitch to at the table. They implored Black voters to think first, second, and last about Democratic Senatorial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A year ago the Department of Justice was finishing up eight long years of a scandal-plagued term under Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, as President Obama’s political arm. A year later, the department has done a complete 180 degree turn back to upholding – instead of undermining – ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Twelve years ago in this space, I penned a commentary entitled “The case for annexing Mexico,” a partly tongue-in-cheek offering which suggested that if America was going to tolerate such a porous southern border, we might as well make it official and begin negotiations with Mexico toward its annexation. Given ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I caught video of NFL player Quinton Jefferson trying to climb into the stands to attack a fan who threw food at him. Jefferson was so enraged that it took 3 huge security guys to restrain him. http://bit.ly/2C80Ra0 Obviously, the fan is an idiot and should suffer consequences for his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are so many negative stereotypes assigned to black men we often don’t know where to start in the dispelling process. The media tells us we are “super predators”, fatherless, absent fathers, and unable to sustain a family without negative vices. We are told we can’t protect our women, don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m approaching my 82nd birthday, and my daughter will occasionally suggest that modernity is perplexing to me because I’m from prehistoric times. As such, it points to one of the unavoidable problems of youth — namely, the temptation to think that today’s behavioral standards have always been. Let’s look at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A new Quinnipiac University poll shows yet another perspective on the deep racial division in our country. According to the poll, 86 percent of blacks compared to 50 percent of whites say that President Trump does not “respect people of color as much as he respects white people.” However, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Simeon Booker, a trailblazing Black journalist, who covered the civil rights movement for the iconic African-American magazines Ebony and Jet and was the first Black person to work as a full-time Washington Post reporter, has died. Booker, who’s credited with playing an integral role in delivering the story of Emmett ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans are supposed to be the party that cuts the job-killing capital gains tax, not raises it. But because of a quirk in the Senate-passed tax bill, the tax on capital gains may go up — and for some types of long-held assets, fairly substantially. Most members of Congress don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Hip Hop Nutcracker was a musical explosion combing old school Hip Hop with classical music and the grace, elegance and power of Hip Hop dancing. The back drop story line of the Nutcracker provided the framework on a story that is relevant generationally dealing with the diversity of relationships ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Faith leaders in the Black community are encouraging members of their congregations to sign-up for healthcare coverage during the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment period that ends on December 15. Reverend Edwin Sanders, the senior pastor and founder of the Metropolitan Interdenominational Church in Nashville, Tenn., said that supporting positive ...