(ThyBlackMan.com) The first round of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Public Choice Resolution was completed last week, where it was determined who would operate 30 new and existing school sites. The Public Choice Resolution was a backdoor game from jump street, as several of the school board members passed the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why now’s the time for him to be about it, instead of talking about it. Let me see if I have this straight: talk show host Tavis Smiley blasted Rev. Al Sharpton and other black leaders because they’re not pressing President Obama to promote a black agenda? Yeah, that would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The undeniable fact is that President Obama has gotten a racial pass from blacks. This tormenting fact ignited brief finger pointing between the Reverend Al Sharpton and talk show host Tavis Smiley. It’s hardly the first time that blacks publicly and more often privately have wrung their hands over Obama’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Feb. 23, ABC News showed a billboard with an African-American child, with a caption on it saying “Endangered Species.” I was gob smacked, to say the least. Some women talked with a commentator expressing disdain for this billboard, as I thought also. This billboard was put up showing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black superheroism is an “ism” I’ve practiced alongside many others. My brand is costume optional but focuses on exceptional characters and cultures within the Diaspora. Icons like Toussaint L’Ouverture and Paul Robeson join generational standards like “being twice as good to get half as much” and “give a brother ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black folks and religion. The stuff of arguments galore. Wags like myself wonder what all the fuss is about? No less than Dr. King observed “11 o’clock Sunday ” is the most segregated time in America. This obtains among the country’s Black and White Christian majority. Against such a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everyone has a story about an ex. Whether it’s a year-long stalker tale that landed you both in the hospital, or a new found friendship that grew stronger. Dealing with ex’s can not only affect your past relationships with them, but it can also effect current and future relationships. Can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I sat at my desk, as frozen as a block of ice, listening to one of the most heated conversations I’ve ever heard on the radio. Tavis Smiley and Rev. Al Sharpton were mad, and you could hear it in their voices. This wasn’t “radio mad,” where you pretend ...