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(ThyBlackMan.com) With the recent political debates, follow-up commentaries, polling and non-stop advertisements bombarding us on television, in the print media, the internet and flooding my mailbox, I thought I would stop for a moment and address the main comment that I have heard all around me. People want to know about the issues! They are apparently tired of all the mud slinging and negative spin campaigning done by all sides […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Grand Ole Game will never be the same! As a freelance journalist and an Associate Editor, I will borrow words from two great sportscasters/analyst to describe my elation upon hearing of the merging of MLB and the Negro League statistics: Jack Brickhouse…Hey Hey!  Harry Carry would say…Holy Cow! As a lifelong baseball obsessive, I’ll admit—the news Major League Baseball (MLB) would fold Negro League stats into its hallowed […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) During a television interview, a Republican lawmaker was once asked is there anything about then-President Barack Obama you liked. He quickly responded, by stating he liked the fact that Obama was a family man. The same sentiment was reinforced years earlier by former Senator John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign. During an October 10, 2008, town hall event in Lakeville, Minnesota, a person in attendance told McCain that […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) It is fair to say that Salman Rushdie, the widely celebrated author, is one of the world’s foremost champions of free speech. Rushdie, who is perhaps best known for his novel “The Satanic Verses,” has sacrificed and suffered more for his craft than the vast majority of his fellow scribes. First, he survived a fatwa (an Islamic legal judgment) from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomeini called for Rushdie’s assassination after […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Last Thursday, a unanimous New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies after deliberating less than 48 hours and observing Mr. Trump’s refusal to testify in his own defense. The jury found that the former president created false business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels for her silence with the purpose of either influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election or […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The beef, and all of its fall out, of Kendrick Lamar and Drake is leaving so much more to be discussed beyond the music. Music has always been a conversation piece. So it’s no surprise that each song is being dissected and analyzed bar by bar. That has been an interesting discussion amongst fans. Depending on one’s understanding of Hip Hop the depth of the conversation varies. What I […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) (**1/2)  They’re older. Wiser? Well older. Boyz II middle-aged men. They still got it? And if they do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Bad Boys (1995) and Bad Boys II (2003), starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as rambunctious Miami cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowery, were directed by the flashy director Michael Bay. Bad Boys for Life (2020) had new life breathed into it when the young, edgy Belgian/Arab team […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) I am sure you recall those highly condescending and offensive words spoken by one Joe Biden four years ago during a podcast interview. Biden was insinuating that if you were a Black American who was confused about whether or not voting for him, well, you were not really Black. It reminds me of the insidious question posed to me by a young female student at Northwestern University asking me […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you ever wanted to be a part of an exclusive club? You know the kind that offers entrance to members only and turns away the rift raft at the door. Perhaps they have a secret hand shake or a mysterious symbol that only those who are a part of the group know. After all it’s only natural for us to want to belong. We all crave and desire […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) There is always a heated discussion when it comes to the topic of “gatekeeping”. It seems these days that everyone has an opinion about what belongs and what doesn’t, and no one has the right to say otherwise. Gatekeeping could serve a purpose, but it has become a word used solely as a weapon, and it tends to take away the rights of someone to speak to what belongs […]