(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Am I the only one who sees the constant marginalization of Blacks by Democrats? White elitist Democrats have done more damage to the Black community than any person with a white hood over his head; or any confederate statute resting on the grounds of any state capitol. One need look ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The growth of WordCamp conferences is phenomenal and empowering on the continent of Africa. Since 2016 there is a rapid growth of these dynamic conferences that are showing the “open source” community as a growing family of innovators, creators, artists, evangelists for technology and content creators that build PLNC – Professional ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Growing up as a kid on Jackson St., one of my favorite places that I would often frequent in the hood was called “Mr. Joe’s Pool Room” that was owned by an elderly black man named Joe Williams and the pool room was where you could shoot pool, buy cookies, ...