(ThyBlackMan.com) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? – Jeremiah 17:9 Sen. John McCain is at it again! Sen. McCain recently wrote a scathing column for the Washington Post attacking President Donald Trump as “poorly informed” and “impulsive.” McCain stated, “We are not his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last night, I had watched a very powerful and impactful documentary that portrayed The 1988 Carter High School Football Team in a more sympathetic light than the negative portrayal from white nationalist media’s image of the “thuggish badboy” football team from the 2004 film of “Friday Night Lights” The documentary ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Negative health outcomes for Black men have been at a crisis point since the end of legalized slavery in America. It is no coincidence that as we came up from slavery we’ve gone down in health. The one enduring statistic by which to measure our overall health in America is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are two types of people in the world: those who are grounded and those who have taken flight. Dreamers who have taken flight are not necessarily those whose dreams have taken off, but there’s an important discrepancy here: better to be dreaming in the air than being stuck on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I absolutely love strong carbonated drinks. Coca Cola was once a favorite, and I admit I indulged in the drink often. However, I begin to wonder about Coke when I saw it used to clean a car battery and when I learned I could clean blood off many surfaces. If ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us know someone that has lost their life to illness. Sometimes those illnesses were a result of unhealthy living. With that in mind many of us have sought to take back our health by making the necessary adjustments to live a better life. It’s true we can achieve ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hate exists on many different levels in our world. We’ve been conditioned to see hate mostly from a geo-political perspective – such as world wars, hate crimes and racial indignities. Hate, though, begins as a thought. This thought intersects between humans on just about every level of interaction – on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After having his White House completely turned upside down, and losing people that technically can destroy him due to the information they possess what makes the president believe pride will save him. I heard Paula White, in an interview, say Trump is a strong leader. Well, that would depend on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Tap water from 48,000 public water utilities was found to contain multiple cancer-causing agents from arsenic, dioxane, chromium 6 to nitrates, according to researcher with the Environmental Working Group. Researchers published the findings of their five year study in an online database, searchable by zip code or a local utility’s name, with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Vitamin D is necessary for our bone heath, immune system, and our body’s ability to absorb other vitamins such as vitamin C. It is known as the “sunshine vitamin” because your body has the ability to create vitamin D, unlike other vitamins, on its own through your skin’s exposure to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I graduated from UC Berkeley in 1975 with a BS degree in political science. I studied sociology at Merritt College under Melvin Newton, Huey Newton’s older brother. I have studied black history, Swahili, the African slave trade and understand the racial tensions in America. I understand that the current tension ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Malcolm X, as a member of the Nation of Islam, preached anti-Semitism and called the white man “devil.” After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X dismissed the murder as a case of “the chickens coming home to roost.” In Spike Lee’s biographical drama, “Malcolm X,” a white ...