(ThyBlackMan.com) There is nothing new about the acrimonious debate between Al Sharpton and Cornel West. Historically, there has always been sharp, bitter divisions amongst Black leaders in America. Invariably, as now, it is over access to, and attitudes toward, the American power structure. For example, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No one knows for sure. But a few things seem clear. This is how it began. By 1400, the Christians of Europe had been fighting the forces of Islam for centuries, in a series of wars called Crusades. The Prophet Muhammad lived in the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century AD. Towards the end of his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am neither American nor Jamaican, and yet I am both American and Jamaican. I am a “Jamerican.” I was born in America, but my parents are Jamaican. Up until the late 1960s there were few people from the English-speaking Caribbean living in New York. The only time I heard a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here are five easy steps that you can take to supercharge your, and your child’s, learning that will cost you absolutely nothing! . . . Watch TV . . . Khanacademy.org . . . Look at What U Pay Attention 2 . . . Read Like Your Life Depends ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you believe that there is everlasting life? Not just on Sunday, but everyday? Do you believe that “matter” is more real than spirit, or vice versa? However, isn’t everything you believe you know, just that, a belief? And what is yours? Is there life everlasting? Is there? ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recall the story of the Tower of Babel, the mighty edifice our ancestors built to reach up to heaven so that they could know God? Look now at the Ivory Tower that is the university, and how it has the audacity to claim that it can ultimately know everything. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On August 28, 2008 Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president exactly 45 years to the day from Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. The Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement ended exactly 100 years apart, in 1865 and 1965 respectively. The most important speech ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But it shouldn’t. Of the one billion Roman Catholics in the world today, at least 20% (200 million) are Black. Africa alone has 130 million Black Catholics. In fact, the largest Catholic Church building in the world is found in Africa, the cathedral ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everything has its opposite. Black has white. Night has day. Hard, soft. Hot, cold. If there was a Martin Luther King Jr., there had to be a Malcolm X. Martin Luther King, history remembers. Malcolm X, history tries to forget. But each man in his own way dominated the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Didn’t you like “The Matrix?” It seems everyone did? But why? Was it because of the theme: for all we know, life could be a lot different than it seems? Or because it had so many Black actors? Nonetheless, were there hidden messages in the picture specifically aimed at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the past many advanced “creationism,” a strict interpretation of the Bible’s account of creation, in opposition to evolution. Today “intelligent design” is in the forefront against Charles Darwin’s theory that life arose spontaneously and slowly changed (evolved) in response to the environment into millions of different kinds (species) ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What do you mean you can’t do math? You invented it! An animal bone, with markings used for counting, discovered in South Africa is estimated to be more than 35,000 years old. Another bone, the Ishango Bone, found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, not only has markings for counting, ...