(ThyBlackMan.com) Fannie Lou Hamer (pronounced hay-mer) was one of the unsung pillars of the civil rights movement in the U.S. She was a phenomenal woman—a woman of great determination and great purpose. She was not one to hold back her feelings, especially when fighting for equality. In 1964 she was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whether it is politics, the sports arena or general labor disputes, the analogy comparing modern labor disputes with the permanent stain of slavery just keep coming. The latest comparison was made by HBO’s Real Sports anchor Bryant Gumbel who said that NBA commissioner David Stern was some kind of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At a press conference in Trenton on October 4, New Jersey governor Chris Christie announced that he would not pursue the Republican nomination for president of the United States. He made the right decision. Christie’s political star and presidential hopes had been on the rise for weeks prior as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The political nation has gone crazy with the emergence of one Herman Cain as a legitimate candidate for the Republican nod for President. He is even leading in various straw polls across the country. He has now become more of an interesting character in the media since most people don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our current President, Barack Obama is a brilliant man. Personally I would rank him as one of the smartest Presidents we have had since Richard Nixon and in the same breath with Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson. But as history has shown us, to be a brilliant ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I like Mitt Romney. I do. In fact, how can anyone help liking him? A vigorous man in the Goldilocks prime of his life — not too young to scare the electorate by his lack of experience, not too old to worry about the onset of decrepitude. A man ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP Presidential Herman Cain again solemnly told a pack of pesky reporters in New Hampshire recently that he was absolutely confident that in a head to head match-up against President Obama that he could snatch a third of the black vote. The notion that he can get a big ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Does Mitt Romney have a political death wish? When I heard him utter the phrase, “There are plenty of reasons to vote against Mitt Romney…,” I cringed, imagining endless repetition of this sound byte in the attack ads that will be the basis of the Obama re-election campaign, funded ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP presidential aspirant Ron Paul will unveil his budget and government reform proposal today, the Wall Street Journal reports. Paul’s plan is a serious alternative to the generally cautious Romney proposal. Paul’s plan will either be met with stony silence by the fossil media and DC’s RINOs or derided ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Occupy Wall Street has been going for a month strong now. It’s spread to cities across the country. Two rallies have even been held here in my neck of the woods. I went to one of them last week and talked to some pretty cool people. There were signs ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just in time for a heated general election the Obama Administration backed away from a key component of the Affordable Care Act. The Community Living Assistance Services (CLASS) Act has been pulled from the 2010 health care law because it would not be able to offer the kind of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To criticize or not to criticize the administration, that is the question. Is it better to keep quiet about their policies or give voice to any concerns that you may have in the hope they will correct them? Conversations like this are going on all over Black America. . . ...