(ThyBlackMan.com) Students at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are learning a hard and valuable lesson. These students are not just hearing about the fight behind the civil rights movement; they are living it. In the same spirit behind the boycotts, marches, and lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s, more than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last weekend I was at home cooking myself a BEAUTIFUL dinner (in my best Trump voice). Ba-lieve me, my dinners are the most beautiful dinners; but I digress. While cooking, I thought about Senator Tim Scott, Republican Senator from South Carolina. I have known him for many, many years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a Black man and retired police officer, I have been crying quite a bit lately. Crying from a deep sense of outrage, grief, shame and fear. Outrage because, again, yet another unarmed Black man has been brutally killed by police officers. In communities of color throughout the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After constant pressure from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other right-wing conservatives, the College Board kicked off Black History Month by stripping down its African American Studies Advanced Placement course. DeSantis and the MAGA crowd objected to the original draft because it was an American history from the perspective of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2022, a momentous event occurred that forever changed the trajectory of human history. OpenAI unveiled DALL-E and ChatGPT, two powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools that gave any person with an internet connection the gift of artistic expression and storytelling. With the power of these tools, people are no ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many advocates for the use of Body Cams on police were quick to credit them for outing the cops that bludgeoned Tyre Nichols. Without the Body Cams and the relatively speedy release of the grotesque footage of the Nichols assault, the five cops that beat him almost certainly would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Each year the Association for the Study of African American Life and History sets a theme for Black History Month. This year the theme is Black Resistance. It is appropriate for a time such as this because it reflects the work we must do in a climate where there ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are few things that disturb me more than misconceptions regarding the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. I take the alluded to offenses personally for a host of reasons. The Panthers were a major part of my “radicalization” I believe that Huey P. Newton, with all of his flaws, was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In response to the state of Florida’s decision to reject a new AP African American Studies course, a rally was held on recently at the Florida Capitol building. The rally, titled “Stop the Black Attack,” was organized by Black elected officials, activists, and community members. The rally was led ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In California recently, hearts, families and lives were broken again by two mass shootings. On Saturday evening, Jan. 21, 11 people were killed and nine more were injured at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, a community outside Los Angeles known as the first suburban Chinatown. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You have got to get the numbers, right! Any number of us have heard that statement, many, many times. It is an accepted expression because, it just makes common sense. We do not give it a second thought, when we say it. To build a car, send a person ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s be clear, the five former Black Memphis police officers got everything they deserved for beating Tyre Nichols to a pulp. They were fired and charged with second-degree murder, two counts of official misconduct, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, one count of official oppression and one count of aggravated ...