(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to know when somebody is talking with us and when somebody is talking at us. That is part of what makes the Donald Trump conversation so tiring. It is not always about whether a person likes the man, dislikes him, voted for him, prayed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Lord’s salvation is awesome. Every recipient of this experience becomes a new creation. Old things are passed away, the Bible says (2 Corinthians 5:17). People who once hated God fall in love with Him. One of the most fascinating things I witnessed during my years as a pastor ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Kamala Harris is one of those public figures I have had to sit with a little bit. I cannot say I ever looked at her and felt only one thing. There was some pride, sure, but there were questions too, and I do not believe Black voters should feel ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Barack Obama first started rising nationally, a lot of brothers paid attention immediately because something about him felt different. I am not even talking politics at first either. I am talking about the way the man carried himself. Calm. Sharp. Measured. The brother looked like somebody who thought ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every day highly paid script/copy readers, shills, propagandists and sycophants purport to tell us the “news” however, what they are really doing is gaslighting and lying to us. Sure, some of the events they “report” are factual especially the local occurrences: fires, accidents, community events etc. but overall, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date. The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of the attacks on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Billionaire progressive activist and California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer recently remarked: “Health care companies only care about one thing: profits. Single-payer now.” This is the same Tom Steyer who opposed single-payer when he ran for president in 2020. “Bernie Sanders was right,” he says. “Boy, was I wrong.” He ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that every week, there is a news story or event that leaves us even more tired and weary of the political climate we live in. At a time when we should be paying increased attention to evolving events, we also face the personal need for emotional and mental ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This Juneteenth I will stand at the Hermitage and help celebrate Black music. The Hermitage was Andrew Jackson’s plantation, outside Nashville. I want to be honest about how strange that is. I am descended from slaves and from the men who owned and abused them. The men who denied ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “[N]either can we deny or diminish the delay with which both society and the Church came to denounce the scourge of slavery … This constitutes a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached. It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In April 2026, the Supreme Court dismantled a significant component of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Republican-controlled legislatures in the South quickly got to work redrawing congressional districts to comply with the new ruling. For Black communities who had long fought for the ability to elect candidates of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former Democratic National Committee Chair U.S. Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) faces attacks by fellow Democrats for seeking to represent a heavily black congressional district in Florida. About this district, the Miami Herald wrote: “Under the previous map, the population of the majority-minority 20th District was 53% Black … and ...