(ThyBlackMan.com) Black folks just seem to keep coming up with ways to divide themselves. We keep falling for distractions and side issues, which keep us from focusing on the big picture. The big picture my friends, is us, Black People, not just those you know but those you don’t as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was on the radio this morning with Rev. Jesse Jackson. Other guests on the show included Dr. Marc Lamont Hill of Columbia University, Ohio State University professor and criminal justice expert Michelle Alexander, Tavis Smiley, and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Emanuel Cleaver, among others. The topic of conversation, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) South Park is a show that takes no prisoners. Sometimes they can be brutal, and when your name is mentioned on the show, you might as well prepare to be embarrassed. The latest victim of the show is Tyler Perry, who is presented as “Funny Bot,” a woman in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “He aint gonna do nothin’ but two-hand it.”—a childhood friend, sitting next to me watching a Seventy-Sixer game, said that as we watched Dr. J steal a pass and head up the court with the ball many years ago. I’ll get back to that quote later. As a teenager, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The nation’s blacks are leaving big cities in the Northeast and Midwest at the highest levels in decades, returning to fast-growing states in the once-segregated South in search of better job opportunities and quality of life. The Southern U.S. region — primarily metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A close examination of the Heat’s LeBron James and the role of race… Trying to avoid writing about the Miami Heat this season will be as difficult as trying to avoid writing about race and the NBA. Here we are, mere days after the teams assembled for the first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are signs that equal opportunity has finally reached the most glamorous — and racially charged — position in professional football… Here’s a good measuring stick for progress in the National Football League: The league not only welcomes African-American quarterbacks who are good to great but even makes room ...