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(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution. The United States government today alleges that Mohammed was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, a crime of historic horror ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Frankly, I always thought that sentiment was ridiculous in the first place. Anyone who went through middle school, junior high or high school knows full well the kind of nasty behavior that females are capable of. But there’s garden-variety “mean girl,” “queen bee” snark, and then there is the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I will never understand why President Donald Trump, brought back to office partly in response to a sharp rise in prices during the Joe Biden interlude, would pursue the expensive tariff policy we’ve been subjected to since the beginning of 2025. And yet here we are, with another reason ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The news of Cassandra Wilson’s passing gave me pause before I could find the words to write. One of the most distinctive and influential voices in American music is gone. News of her death broke today, September 2, 2026. She died at home in Jackson, the same Mississippi ground ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Country legend Dolly Parton was known for her powerful voice, bubbly personality, and timeless music. But there was another side of Dolly Parton, a side that she quietly and consistently showed up for the Black community. As a lad, this writer grew up in the “hood” but was fascinated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A very wise man once said, “elections have consequences. Shortly less than two years after the 2024 presidential election many Americans and others have come to understand how true that statement is. There were many Americans who voted in the November 2024 election who voted not for someone but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “A people without the knowledge of their history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey When I graduated high school in New Orleans, America was a different place. Black Americans were all but locked out of economic opportunity because of the color of our skin ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You can look at a tool label in a store and see a dry little number stamped into metal or printed on a box. Two tons. Three tons. Six thousand pounds. It seems harmless, almost boring. But when you are crouched beside a vehicle, gravel pressing through your knees, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Collegiate sports are undergoing arguably its most unpredictable era ever. There are several NFL rookies leaving NFL training camps with the hopes of joining a college football team this upcoming 2026 college football season. The NCAA announced a five-year, age-based eligibility model earlier this year that starts with an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a particular kind of foolishness that only pride can buy. Duane Davis, the man the streets came to know as Keffe D, spent close to two decades telling anybody with a microphone or a publishing deal exactly how Tupac Shakur died. He talked to police. He talked ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Tuesday, authorities in Pennsylvania reported two deaths from measles. Both of the patients were unvaccinated. Measles is reportedly ravaging Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County, where 70 people have been hospitalized so far and hundreds infected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has so far this year reported 2,777 cases ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to watch an entire generation start believing a person is whoever his pictures claim. That belief has cost people plenty. The federal complaint against Daejon Love, filed this month in the District of Oregon and later made public, is among the clearest warnings I ...
