(ThyBlackMan.com) One day in the not too distant future we might see this Letter to the Editor in an American newspaper. . . Can something not be done to alleviate the horrendous conditions at Central Station? The abundance of derelicts in the most God awful condition wandering about and sleeping ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent years the NAACP has been accused of being out of touch. Well it looks like they are getting back into the swing of things. This Sunday, June 17 in New York the NAACP is leading a silent march to mobilize the community against the racist policies of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When does a boy become a man? At puberty? When he fathers a child? When he can provide for himself? When he can support a family? Or is it simply, when he turns 21? In the Old Days a knight in training could not become a full fledged warrior, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black Faces In White Places is far more than a “how-to succeed in the corporate world” manual for African Americans. It not only explains in great and meaningful detail how to play the game, but how to get downright creative with it for your own tremendous benefit. Drs. Randall ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Astronaut MAE JEMISON flew as Mission Science Specialist on a seven day flight aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. She was born in Decatur, Alabama on October 17, 1956 just as the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, which launched the civil rights movement, was reaching its climax. Dr. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you ever heard of the Gullah people of South Carolina? They are also called Geechies. The word “Gullah” is short for the “Gola” people of Angola, and “Geechie” refers to the “Gidzi” people of Sierra Leone. Many of the inhabitants of the Sea Islands off the coast of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 333 BC, after defeating two Persian armies, Alexander inherited Egypt. Wasting little time, he marched up the Nile at the head of his warriors, as his warships floated alongside. Note how a contemporary European writer describes the scene. “There can scarcely be a European today not furnished with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad, David and Saul, Achilles and Agamemnon. What do these three pairs of leaders all have in common? An important lesson for the future that we can all learn by looking at the past. Will we heed the message and understand? The ancient Greeks were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Perhaps there is much in the Bible open to debate, but one thing seems sure. There was an Eve, and the Garden was Africa . Science is agreed that all humanity is descended from one woman who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. Science also informs us that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In order to see the future, we must first look back to see the past. During the days of bondage there was something called the Slave Patrols. “Patterrollers” (patrollers) were white men who served on local patrols organized throughout the South to control the movement of slaves outside their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Their daylong trip out of Kingston over the winding, mountain roads led to Treasure Hotel, but the treasure was long gone. Weeds grew thick about the grounds and invaded the quaint, old wood-frame building whose paint peeled and shutters needed fixing, but never would be. The front desk was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Contrary to popular belief, African Americans are by no means a homogeneous population. They are composed of a variety, of now overlapping, but originally much more distinct, ethnic strands. In coastal South Carolina, there are the Gullah people, and in coastal Georgia the Geechies. (The two terms are often ...