Category: History
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Evolved Man of the Week: Eugene Bullard
Welcome to the “Black History Month” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week in February, we will highlight a historical black male figure who embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s…
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The Black Atheist Experience
The Age of Reason When I turned twenty years old, I had an epiphany. I had reached the age of reason and realized I was an atheist. It took me many years to get to the point of even writing something like this on a public forum. Being an atheist in America isn’t well-received by…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Sylvester James Gates
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week, we highlight an individual who embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the author, physicist, science educator, and television personality, Sylvester…
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The Deplorables and How to Fight Back
There is no love lost for Hillary Clinton by me personally. I believe her and her faction of the Democratic Party, represented the Neo-liberal wing of it. Their ‘so-called’ pragmatism has failed so many millions of people. She had too much baggage; her campaign and the Democratic Party elite partook in the same Chicago Democratic…
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The Hate that Hate Made: The Rise of Trump and the New Era
Hate and Fear Overcomes November 9, 2016, was the capstone on an already unbelievable year of total fuckery. Prince died, Muhammad Ali died, Harambe got shot, Bowie died, the Cleveland Cavilers bested one of the best teams in NBA history to win the NBA Title, the Chicago Cubs won the “freaking” World Series, and America…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Hakeem Oluseyi
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week, we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week, we honor physicist, veteran, professor, inventor, star of the Science Channel’s…
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American Idiocracy
Dumb it Down? The infamous and incredible comedian George Carlin once said: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” He was talking about his fellow American citizens. T.V. host, comedian, and lizard man, Bill Maher often comments on the average American’s level of intelligence or…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Colin Kaepernick
Welcome to the first edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the former San…
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The New Mis-Education of the Negro
A Brief History Lesson In November 2008, America elected the first person of color to the highest office in the land. Many media and political pundits were claiming that America had reached the point of becoming a post-racial society. Since white folks voted in such large numbers for a black man, the country had supposedly…
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Half of the Sky
Cloudy Skies Ahead During my young and single days, like most 20 somethings, I was looking for love in all the wrong places. But I had fun while looking. I was at a bar one night in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. I met a young nurse we’ll call “Rose.” She was sitting alone at the…
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