(ThyBlackMan.com) This is a revisiting of an early and ongoing conversation about the shared meaning of Kwanzaa, its particular cultural message to African people, and its core values that speak to the best of what it means to be African and human in the world and for the world. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What does it mean that an alleged murderer has become a folk hero, that literally millions of people in this country have taken his side — in social media, at least, if not as potential jurors — in a case of cold-blooded murder? What does it mean that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The publication last week of a new and innovative report on the causes of colorectal cancer could not be more timely, coming as it does when Americans are debating whether what we eat is killing us prematurely — and whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” slogan ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s face it. There are some people who are jealous and can’t stand the idea of so many brilliant Black women! I admit, there are a lot and it might be a bit overwhelming. Just look at history and look around you now. No matter what many Black women do, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The election of Donald Trump is similar to a biblical story found in 1 Samuel 8. The leaders of Israel, on behalf of the people, came to the prophet Samuel stating that they wanted a king so they could be like the other nations. In other words, so they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the run up to the November 2024 presidential election, Democratic party candidates and officials exhorted voters that American democracy was in serious danger if Donald J. Trump was elected as president. They pointed out that Trump in his own words talked about becoming a dictator for at least ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ok, you very cultured people will know the title of this week’s missive from Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, which was turned into a film in 2012 but has been a Broadway stage production for years. I am not one of those cultured fellas but for the sake of domestic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the startling news broke on Thursday that China’s President Xi Jinping had accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald J. Trump to attend Trump’s Inauguration on January 20th, it barely moved the needle in America’s newsrooms…because it was only a small blip on the worldwide radar screens monitoring Trump’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years. As such he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The same day Daniel Penny, the retired Marine and architecture student, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and negligent homicide, a New York grand jury declined to recommend charges against Jordan Williams. Williams and his girlfriend, who are both black, were on a Brooklyn subway train when Williams, 20 years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Trump’s election promises, delivering for both billionaires and working-class Americans, is not a done deal. To deliver for two of the most diametrically opposed groups of his, and the Republican party’s newest coalition, working-class Americans and billionaires, millionaires and corporate America, President Trump has to be something Democrats refuse to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the more interesting factors regarding the recent presidential election was that exit polls showed an overwhelming majority of Americans were unhappy about life in general. Across the board Americans of all races, genders and other social, economic and political categories indicated they were not happy. They were ...