(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Loser: The American People Americans were unhappy prior to the Israeli-US War on Iran. They had witnessed unbelievable chaos, confusion, distrust, alienation and divisiveness within the nation. Still, they viewed their nation as a friendly nation and not a bully. After the war started, sitting in their cars paying ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America once worried about an imperial presidency. Now we have an imperial presidency merged with a family business. And somehow, too many Americans are shrugging. Perhaps that shrug is less agreement than exhaustion. Americans are tired — tired of the scandals, the outrage cycles, the endless circus where every ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Californians will face two competing tax measures this November. The first is the Billionaire Tax Act, a onetime, 5% levy on the accumulated net worth of the state’s richest residents. Lesser known is the Retirement and Personal Savings Protection Act, which would draw constitutional lines around what Sacramento can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) History tells us that Alexander Stephens was a very dangerous man. As vice president of the Confederate States of America, Stephens gave his famous “Cornerstone Speech” when referring to the equality of races. During his speech, Stephens stated “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On May 22, Clarence B. Jones passed away at 95 years old, and truthfully, a lot of younger folks probably do not realize how important that brother was to Black history. Everybody knows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Everybody knows the “I Have A Dream” speech. But many people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t know if you have ever heard of Candace Owens, but those in the know will tell you she is no friend of most of the people you know if you are African American. We have enough people out there who look like us, but choose to work ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dream big, but don’t let your dreams linger too long, young black men and women, because your sacrifices will have a greater impact on your race than your dreams alone. This belief came to the forefront when the NAACP recently urged black student-athletes to boycott major southern PWI institutions ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The sight is so commonplace on Los Angeles streets that it no longer rates more than a passing glance. That is a homeless man or woman sleeping on a sidewalk. What’s even more commonplace is that people casually walk by or more likely around them without more than a ...