(ThyBlackMan.com) Dark Skull & Bones Gang… Vibrant Mardi Gras Indians…Innovative Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs…Diverse Jazz Bearers…Artistic Second Line. What do these have to do with New Orleans parades? Plenty. Outside the French Quarters and Bourbon Street, Backstreet Cultural Museum is located in the historic Tremè neighborhood. The two-room museum is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A new semester teaching Educational Technology and Social Media, new opportunity to share the empowerment and collaboration of technology. The joy is opening my student’s eyes and minds to new avenues to create and share positive content. The challenge is getting past the preconceived ideas that Blacks don’t use technology along with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We have so much to consider as a collective community. Our kids need us to fight for their right to a competent education in a safe environment. We have a President that is about to be sworn in that does not carry our interest at all. He has appointed an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the rules of psychological warfare is that if you wanna control a group of people, you have to control certain narratives, images, and messages. And we as African people are basically the main targets for this psychological warfare that has been used against us for over 400 years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On January 11, 2017 President Elect Donald Trump gave his first News Conference. This conference took place the morning after President Obama’s farewell address. We are definitely seeing the transfer of power between the administrations, and the vast differences. President Elect Trump, once he is President, might want to try ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On January 10, 2017 President Obama gave a farewell speech that made reality sink in for many Americans. Since November 8, 2016 many have been in a state of denial. The behavior of President Elect Trump made it more difficult to accept that President Obama’s time as President has come ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today across urban America lie pockets of Black poverty produced largely by housing discrimination, redlining and later, public housing. While some neighborhoods have always been poor, they haven’t always been dangerous. Black families lived relatively peacefully in poverty for over a century. Prior to the 1970s during the struggle ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What future will America have when so many of her citizens lack the ability to engage in critical thinking, refuse to connect the dots, and fail to use common sense? This unwillingness to think clearly is no better demonstrated than by the continued support for the minimum wage. After ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Never forget. Never falter. The unconquerable endurance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., lives on! Beneath the lush golden sky symbolizing the Deep South, a nostalgic haze looms across the terrain. On this poignant afternoon, visitors at the King Center in Atlanta, are deep in thought, as they commemorate the annual ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So long as you aren’t harming others or interfering with their exercise of their rights, you’re free to live your life however you wish to. You have no moral requirement to get someone else’s permission to do the things you want to do. Of course, no one else is under ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Folks, I gotta tell ya’. My heart leaped with joy hearing Jeff Sessions give his opening statement at his confirmation hearing for Attorney General. http://bit.ly/2jAHctn I thought, “Thank you God! Finally, an America loving adult running our DOJ. What a concept.” First Obama gave us Eric Holder, a black AG ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Watching video on her phone, my wife Mary laughed hysterically at ridiculous answers to man-on-the-street questions. The young interviewees knew everything about the cast of Jersey Shore. They were clueless about who won the Civil War; who is our Vice President and who we fought to gain our independence. I ...