(ThyBlackMan.com) Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as African American music Appreciation Month, it was first officially celebrated by President Jimmy Carter with a White House reception. Carter created a platform to recognize and celebrate music, and many Black music ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Whoever disregards discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored” (Proverbs 13:18) It is incredibly sad and very amazing at the same time to find out that throughout the ages some of the brightest and most evil people have coexisted in a world where no ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The president is doing his best to inflame passions within and at California. Calling in the National Guard against the governor’s wishes is a provocation. Sending in Marines to add drama to his show is an insult as well as incitement. The Marines are not a fashion accessory. They ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a term called the fog of war which was made popular following WWII. It pertained to the uncertainty of war; how often tactical decisions were made lacking the Information or intelligence required which led to uncertainty. In modern times it came to mean a covering or obscuring of truth. We ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The murder and martyrdom of Nana George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and our 5th anniversary commemorations to mark the taking and legacy of his life do not end the day they happened, but rather remain with us. Indeed, they have an awesome and enduring afterlife of remembrance, sustained trauma, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no poor, working- or middle-class adult in America whose life has not been touched by either Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Roosevelt’s New Deal (1930s) primarily focused on the economic recovery and the protection of workers from the Great Depression. While the New ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It’s sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it,” President Donald Trump said, in explaining the hostility that overcomes veterans of his administration. Are they crazed because of what they’ve seen or what they’ve done? Or were they always crazed, which is why they were there in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “He is not the right guy. He doesn’t seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States.” The “right guy” that mega billionaire Elon Musk referred to during the 2016 presidential campaign was then GOP presidential candidate Trump. Musk did not elaborate on what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The US is not the only country in which the issue of immigration has become a hot button political concern. It is a major concern for many European countries. Various attempts to halt what is called illegal immigration, that is the act of entering a country outside of a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) May 25 marked five years since the murder of George Floyd. Floyd’s death should never stop being a catalyst for social change. His death illustrates how a typical, nonviolent encounter with law enforcement can go wrong, resulting in another needless death of an innocent person. His death revealed the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Donald Trump first campaigned in 2015, he capitalized on a potent narrative: that China’s rise gutted American manufacturing, leaving countless blue-collar communities devastated. Known now as the “China shock,” that idea paved the way for a dramatic resurgence in protectionism, culminating in sweeping tariffs including Trump’s controversial “Liberation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If we get serious about our country’s fiscal health – and given our crushing national debt, and our increasingly unsustainable interest payments on it, thanks to Moody’s recent and historic downgrade, we finally have no choice – we should start being honest about the “health care industry,” and the costs ...