(ThyBlackMan.com) “Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses selling weed after 40 years of impoverished Black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?” – Michelle Alexander, associate professor ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The December 8th death of hip hop/emo rapper Jarad Higgins, known professionally as Juice WRLD following complications from a seizure from a not confirmed but apparent opioid overdose came as a surprise to those familiar with the up and coming artist. After his passing, his death made me question ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s a sickness that has inflicted the Black community for the past fifty years that few people want to acknowledge. This disease has killed more Blacks than any white person wearing a hood; it has killed more Black babies than Planned Parenthood; and has made the Black community the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nearly 500,000 film lovers flocked to the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, screening hundreds of films from all over the world. Artistry and diversity, the hallmarks of TIFF, were on view. Black artists, filmmakers and films were a key part of the mix. Big budget movies, small indie films, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Candace, I recently had the opportunity to finally meet you in person. We both spoke at The Symposium at the Wall in Sunland Park, NM, location of America‘s first privately funded border wall. We were both backstage and the host brought you over to me so we could be introduced. I must ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I know it sounds like such a long time ago that Barack Obama was our dearly beloved President, but when he was President, we rejoiced in the fact that Harriet Tubman was finally going to be properly recognized at the national level for all the work she did under ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black Americans for a Better Future Educational Fund (BAFBFED) announces their 7th Annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards. Along with the Annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards, there will also be an Economic Summit. The Summit is set for Friday, June 21, 2019 at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the 2020 presidential campaigns underway a prominent topic is being evaluated by candidates —at least Democratic candidates. It is the issue of reparations. Even though reparations for slavery has been touched on for decades, it has never been materialized. Reparations have been given out before but the issue ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Washington, DC – Black Americans for a Better Future Educational Fund (BAFBFED) announces their 7th Annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards. Along with the Annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards, there will also be an Economic Summit. The Summit is set for Friday, June 21, 2019 at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave. NW ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently had the pleasure of being invited by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to speak at a breakfast gathering honoring D.C. Emancipation Day. We would be celebrating the 157th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s formal emancipation of over 3,000 enslaved individuals in the district (on April 16, 1862). Several ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, virtually every serious 2020 Democratic presidential candidate spent an unserious period of time embarrassingly kissing the ring of race-baiter extraordinaire Al Sharpton at his National Action Network conference. Sharpton’s burning question for each of them? Would they support H.R. 40, a bill originally introduced in 1989, probably as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Less than two weeks ago, on March 22, Kelley Jackson, founder of the Cane River Film Festival, hosted the second annual event held in beautiful Natchitoches, Louisiana. The two-day event started off with a film showcase at local high school, Louisiana school for math, science, and arts, at 715 University ...