(ThyBlackMan.com) “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” Chinua Achebe The story of Africa was a story created by Europeans that is and in some cases still ignorant and in denial to the beauty, intelligence, creative and innovative spirit of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It happened very suddenly over the summer. I have been using Facebook for several years. A friend convinced me that once my Facebook “friends” had hit the 5000 mark (the maximum permitted) that I should replace my existing page with a “Fan Page” or “Celebrity Page.” It sounds more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump’s political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Scripture Deuteronomy 15:1-6 1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that’s the group that picks the Oscar nominees and winners, faces its first big test on January 14. That’s the day that it will announce who its members nominated for this year’s Academy Awards. It’s a big test for a good ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Colleges and universities will assume their new freshman class will have certain skills, those would be reading, comprehension, mathematics and writing skills. If these skills are not up to par then students will be faced with academic challenges. This is why many HBCU’s have remedial classes that cover the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2016 Republican Nomination race, simplistically cast as a competition between “Establishment RINOs” and the “True Conservative” base, illustrates a destructive psychosis currently infecting the GOP. Paranoid voices on the right insist that the party is under siege by a liberal cabal of kamikaze Republicans–RINOs, The Establishment. Stemming from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations. ––Stokely Carmichael Over the last four decades of attrition concerning ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the University of Alabama football team prepares to line up against Clemson University Jan. 11 in Glendale, Ariz. to decide the national collegiate championship, it’s worth noting that the Crimson Tide wouldn’t be “rolling” in success and the money that accompanies it without its Black players, led by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The year 2015 brought tectonic changes in several areas of our lives that the media has totally ignored or under-reported. Too often media, both left and right, only talk to people who view the world from the same prism as they do. The same argument can be made about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Okay, I will say it out loud. Far too many Hollywood celebs are self-aggrandizing idiots when it comes to politics and culture. Their worldview makes them feel superior to the rest us. Neither facts nor common sense will change their minds. Ronald Reagan nailed it when he said, “It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) God gives us strength as we follow His rescue plan, when the battles of life leave us spiritually weak, confused, devastated and drained. He gives power to the faint, the weary and the fallen who may also be destitute. Wait on God for a renewal of strength. Ignore temptations ...