(ThyBlackMan.com) Is Barack Obama, the nation’s first African American president, trying to kill Historically Black Colleges and Universities? If he’s not, he’s going to have a difficult time convincing HBCU presidents, trustees and alumni. Surprisingly, Obama has become their worst nightmare. Neither Obama, the First Lady, the Secretary of Education ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Whoever loves money never has enough.” Ecclesiastes 5:10 I would offer that verse from the wisest man in history to our National NAACP President and Board. They sent me at least five letters in December asking for money to help meet a $100,000 goal. Are they that strapped for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People must wonder why the United States has been so hard on Cuba for the past 55 years. The answer is simple. Led by the incomparable Fidel Castro, this small island nation took on the strongest nation on earth and, by all accounts, succeeded. Having the feared Soviet Union ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like the rest of America, Black America, in the aggregate, is better off now than it was when I came into office,” said President Obama on December 19, in response to a question by Urban Radio Networks White House Correspondent April Ryan. What planet African Americans are doing “better ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The nation does understand that the NYPD is mourning the loss of comrades. These men had families, and their loss is tragic. The problem that I can’t seem to get over is: Why doesn’t NYPD seem to understand that the murder of Eric Garner caused mourning and anger. This ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I come from a tiny country, Congo Brazzaville, where by all appearances we have historically nothing to do with the United States: we were colonized by the French, and we speak French, not English. However I live in America, and when this country comes down with the flu, I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rudy Giuliani Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) is a confused man that is also chauvinistic on the first order. http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/rwg/html/bio.html Giuliani made an extremely controversial comment in his November 23rd appearance on Meet The Press. He stated that “white cops would not be needed in black neighborhoods ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The debate is sharp over whether the movie Selma got it right about Lyndon Johnson and his relationship with and to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A counter argument challenges the film’s depiction of Johnson as at best wary of King and his mass street action campaigns in Selma ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After a phenomenal election last November in which Republicans increased their margins in the House and took control of the Senate, the expectation was that congressional Republicans would prove to the country that they could lead like mature adults. But as the adage goes, “they never miss an opportunity ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What a raucous, topsy-turvy, heart-wrenching, angry year we experienced in 2014. We had everything from the sadness of lives lost on airplanes and ferry boats, to the anger of Black men being killed and Black women being beaten by police officers, to the elation of a record-breaking stock market and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This past weekend, thousands of New York City police officers turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio at the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos at Christ Tabernacle in Glendale, New York. It is now widely known that Officer Ramos saw his work in the NYPD as his ministry. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The late, great comedian Richard Pryor had many sayings I found to be completely hilarious. Naturally, the vast majority of those sayings could not be printed in a family newspaper such as this one. There remains, however, one clean phrase of his I have laughed at repeatedly for decades. ...