(ThyBlackMan.com) “Exodus! Movement of Jah people!” wails Bob Marley in his iconic song with its driving, pulsating rhythms. Does history repeat itself? Are we the Israelites? Is this the Promised Land? Do people, names, and themes recur and resonate down through history until the end of time? Some in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Christopher Everett’s new independent film “Wilmington on Fire” is a stunning movie about the racist massacre that took place in Wilmington, North Carolina when a mob of whites burned down Black businesses in downtown Wilmington and either killed or exiled its Black citizens, threatening death to some of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us point to the accomplishments and contributions of ancient African science and philosophy as proving the worth of African peoples and as reasons for us to be treated equally. Others of us see these things as the rationale for us to take pride in our African heritage, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In any other time and place it would be the most idiotic and unbelievable headline one could imagine. The headline being that Hillary Clinton ranks close to Trump as the two most hated candidates in the history of American presidential elections. That’s a lot of years and a lot ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the March 7th 2016 edition of the Boston Review in the article, “Black Study, Black Struggle” Robin Kelley initiated a discussion of the state and future course of Black Studies. Here are excerpts from the piece and responses to it. “In the fall of 2015, college campuses were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Right now there is a massive cover up going on in the city of Chicago involving the highest levels of local, state and federal government. The Black city councilpersons agreed to a five million dollar payout to Laquan’s family even before they filed a lawsuit. Part of the agreement in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once upon a time long ago, a Yardie (working class Jamaican) and his cousin from America took in the show at Crossroads Theatre in Kingston. The moviehouse was cavernous. Tier upon tier of seats stretched up to a ceiling high as a cathedral. The screen was a gargantuan affair about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To a very large degree “street lit” has replaced the burgeoning interest in books on African and African American history and culture displayed in the 1990s. However, graphic tales of sex and violence first began to make their presence felt as far back as the sixties, with the books ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the media jumped all over Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy last week for his comments about how the Benghazi hearings have driven Hillary Clinton’s polling numbers down; I couldn’t help but reflect on what my buddy once told me: When the night has come And the land is dark ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you see the movie, A Beautiful Mind? It follows the life of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. In it, we see how he eventually came to be called insane. He sees and hears people that no one, other than he, can see. The movie is presented from his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How many times have you heard it said that “Donald Trump will not be the Republican nominee.” Like a mantra it is repeated over and over by reporters, commentators, and talking head of every stripe, be they Republican or Democrat, or liberal or conservative talk show host or political ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America, warts and flaws and shortcomings notwithstanding, is seen as the last best hope for humanity. Its foundational documents proclaim equality and pledge to attain “a more perfect Union.” In furtherance of that lofty goal the Civil War was fought, the Civil Rights struggle waged and the Black Lives ...