(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a refrain which down through the years has been uttered by many. It underscored a belief, a hope, that the tough, unnerving, difficult period that they were in would in time pass. “This too shall pass.” Usually in one form or another it did. Many Americans and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ashley, North Dakota, is a small farming town where the local diet leans hard on sausage, deep-fried chicken and strudel. It has something of a medical center, but the nearest trauma hospital able to handle the most serious injuries is almost four hours away in Fargo. Yet the elders ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to know when somebody is talking with us and when somebody is talking at us. That is part of what makes the Donald Trump conversation so tiring. It is not always about whether a person likes the man, dislikes him, voted for him, prayed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The San Antonio Spurs are not dead yet, and that is the one thing the New York Knicks did not want to hear after Game 3. After dropping the first two games of the NBA Finals at home, the Spurs walked into Madison Square Garden with their season leaning ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We have a popular saying that goes something like this, “Rome was not built in a day” and we all have a good understanding what that means. The truth is that I do not know how long it took to build Rome, but I know that the entire universe, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since its inception in 1997, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) was never about expanding and promoting women’s basketball. It was always about the marketing and promotion of the homosexual agenda. It was a brilliant move at first glance; but as with all things liberal, the NBA (the men’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One thing about us, we know our people when we see them. You can watch one Druski clip and before the skit even gets rolling good, somebody in the room will say, “That sound just like Ray Ray,” or “That’s Sister Johnson from church right there.” That is why ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Lord’s salvation is awesome. Every recipient of this experience becomes a new creation. Old things are passed away, the Bible says (2 Corinthians 5:17). People who once hated God fall in love with Him. One of the most fascinating things I witnessed during my years as a pastor ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Kamala Harris is one of those public figures I have had to sit with a little bit. I cannot say I ever looked at her and felt only one thing. There was some pride, sure, but there were questions too, and I do not believe Black voters should feel ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have heard this debate in barbershops, at cookouts, around card tables, and in those long talks where somebody swears they are not arguing while clearly arguing. Put Michael Jackson and James Brown in the same sentence and you are going to wake up somebody’s opinion. One person will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The conversation around wealth-building in Black communities has always centered on ownership. Own the building, own the business, own the block. What has shifted in the last decade is what ownership actually looks like — and where the most accessible entry points exist. For a growing number of entrepreneurs, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Barack Obama first started rising nationally, a lot of brothers paid attention immediately because something about him felt different. I am not even talking politics at first either. I am talking about the way the man carried himself. Calm. Sharp. Measured. The brother looked like somebody who thought ...