(ThyBlackMan.com) As you may have heard, African Americans face unique challenges daily. Some of these challenges are chronic ethical issues of injustice and inequality. Others are cultural issues like family & economic structure. Cultural issues often take a back seat to the unfair treatment endured, because WE purposely put them there. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s been a fierce debate about presidential debates. The debate is whether they really do make or break a presidential candidate. This start it all over again in the run-up to the three scheduled debates between GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The hard political ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like plantation owners of the past, modern-day Democrat bosses are trying to transfer the allegiance of their black subjects to yet another Democrat presidential candidate. On Saturday, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation “honored” Hillary Clinton with the Trailblazer Award for becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major party. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Throughout my life, whenever I’ve gotten stuck – whether in a relationship or work challenge, financial dilemma or a stagnant workout plan – it is the power of honest self-reflection that has gotten me unstuck time and again. In seemingly dark, frustrating moments, the lightbulb comes in the form of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On a Sunday morning the 15 of September in 1963, the Ku Klux Klan murdered four girls when they bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The church, which had been built in 1911, would be the last place Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Great news! In the tradition of those who have called for supporting our African relatives in some form or another, THE One Million Conscious and Conscientious Black Contributors and Voters, has developed one way to do just that. In addition to creating more conscious Black millionaires via our own “cash ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My position on Kaep is that he absolutely has a constitutional right to express his opinion on the politics of diversity in America today. Colin Kaepernick is courageous, well-informed, and steadfast in his position. He is evolving through an “awakening,” and (perhaps) really understanding for the first time ? given ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the space of less than two weeks GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump did something that few thought possible, let alone desirable. He went to not one, but two black churches in Detroit and Flint, Michigan. Now at first glance this seems to fly in the face of everything that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Saturday, September 10, I had the pleasure of being one of the featured speakers for the inaugural Liberty Farm Festival hosted by my good friend Martha Boneta. It was the last gathering of the who’s who of Virginia politics before this year’s presidential election. Donald Trump’s vice presidential running ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This political season means full employment for pundits, opinion givers, strategists and soothsayers, on cable television and via social media. It’s interesting to watch the catch phrases, verbal crutches and tics speakers and writers use, which often, when examined, make little or no sense. We all do it. Donald ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Are you ready to vote? Are you registered? These may seem like simplistic questions, especially for those who are aware, but every year some folks are denied access to the polls because they didn’t register on time, or they moved and their address does not match the address the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2001, I spoke at the National Black Expo, in Chicago. The theme was centered on one of most troubling factors related to the economic survival of Black people in the United States: The Low Success Rate of African American Businesses. But as Jazzman, Les McCann, so pertinently asked ...