(ThyBlackMan.com) “Where you been, boy?” When I heard those words in June 1966, I knew I was going to have rough time in the U.S. Navy. My immediate reply to that Petty Officer was, “Who are you calling a boy? I am a man!” I was twenty-one years old, already ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret that the racist War On Drugs and the mass incarcerated epidemic had obliterated so many families in our community for the past several decades. Despite all of the negative propaganda the mainstream media loves to put out about our brothers “not being active fathers to their ...
Seven financial tips a black woman should follow: How black women can get back on track financially.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Being female and black is hard when it comes to money because that’s how many of us as women struggle to survive on. So many of us are living check to check and not thinking about things at the long-term aspect. Yet there’s seven things a black woman needs ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Orlando officials didn’t hesitate to brand the appalling and heinous massacre at a gay nightclub, domestic terrorism. The key word is domestic and using that word to describe the killing of at least 50 persons in the worst killing spree in American history as a home grown terror act ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Black girls need to know that they matter. They need to see examples of success, leadership, achievement, sisterhood, compassion, humanitarianism, in abundance so that they can gain confidence in their ability to become their best and greatest selves.” Black Girls Rock Inc. Founder Beverly Bond The upcoming gathering of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While there is no denying that Donald Trump has had a terrible past couple of weeks with his dogged focus on some obscure federal judge in San Diego, I think Trump can right the ship, but he has an extremely narrow window to do so. I will deal with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are heavily populated precincts in places like Boston, Camden, Baltimore and other Northern cities where fewer than ten people vote in Republican primaries. A decades-long influx of Southern Democrats alienated by their party’s support for desegregation has utterly transformed the Republican Party nationally. As a result of this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To those who don’t know – most outside of the media industry have little familiarity with this – there has been a tragedy of the commons going on for a couple of decades now that has ultimately resulted in the elimination of diverse voices in media. The tragedy of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky’s velvet glove sentence of 6 months, of which he’ll serve only three months, to former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner after his rape conviction was no aberration. The case of Brian Banks, falsely convicted or rape, and who served five years, before exoneration, was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Amanda logged onto Facebook one evening after getting home from work and scrolled through the news feed. Her fellow high school track buddy Ericka posted an adorable video of her two-year old daughter playing in the backyard. A colleague from her first job out of college posted a pic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No one remembers old Marcus Garvey — Burning Spears. While many people have heard of Marcus Garvey, very few are aware of the magnitude of his accomplishments. Garvey was a visionary leader, industrious and one of America’s greatest orators of the 20th century. He is rarely mentioned in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every day many of us older adults shake our heads as we watch young people follow the crowd, think in groups and act or react with little or no individuality. Many of us assume it is because they have not grown into their identity – and that is likely ...