(ThyBlackMan.com) Legend has it that in the Spring of 1863 a few months after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the Slaves in the rebellion (seceded) states a group of Black Union Soldiers were on a scouting mission in the southern area of Texas based out of Louisiana ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The timeless texts and teaching of Haji Malcolm X are a vital contribution to defining and reaffirming the indispensable, urgent and ongoing need to cultivate and sustain critical consciousness in the service and interests of our people, our liberation struggle and the good of the world. Indeed, his teachings ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recent disclosures have plunged the FBI back into a storm of controversy due to its abuse of the robust surveillance tool Section 702, with almost 300,000 incidents recorded in 2020 and early 2021. The unsettling instances of misuse encompass searches connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Don Lemon you saw in the morning is the same Don Lemon I used to watch at night. I admit I had my concerns about him leaving the night line up. I wondered if it was going to put him on the path to getting fired. There are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every generation is blessed to have examples of poise, character, strength and class. Every role model has had challenges to face that can seem larger than life at times; it is how they manage and overcome said challenges that make people want to follow them. Black history is filled ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I will preface this article with one fact. The DOJ dropped the investigation into former Vice President Mike Pence’s possession of classified documents. I’ll let you marinate on that as I begin. It isn’t a surprise in Republican circles that Mike Pence threw his hat into the ring to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Education ought to be the bedrock for fostering critical thinking and providing a landscape for the exploration of diverse perspectives, rather than serving as an incubator for extremist ideologies. That essential ethos of education, unfortunately, is under threat, exemplified recently by the graduation speech of City University of New ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It wasn’t a difficult choice to watch the first of the NBA playoff games between Miami and Denver instead of Donald Trump’s appearance on “Hannity,” but when Denver built a 12-point lead, I switched channels to see if Trump might say something new? Nope, same old denouncing of opponents ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a ferment building in the world that is realigning relations among nation states, global political and economic power, and even the relations between life as we know it on Earth and Earth itself. Hanging over humanity are threats of obliteration from nuclear war, the proliferation of viruses, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While sitting in a waiting room waiting to be seen by an orthopedic specialist random conversation is happening all around me. In this waiting room there are people from various different walks of life discussing life and living with the stranger sitting next to them. There is a TV ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Each election cycle we get closer. In 2013, the nation experienced a 16-day federal government shutdown when the Republicans demanded the government’s spending bill include provisions which would impede or delay President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. In the midst of the 2013 shutdown, the AFL-CIO, the U.S. Chamber ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am fond of saying that weak people take strong positions on weak issues! The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) specifically and the media appointed radical Black liberal leaders in general are the embodiment of this adage. Their original mission was to secure civil rights ...