(ThyBlackMan.com) Life in New Orleans has always taught us how to read between the lines… how to feel the truth of a thing even when the people in power try to dress it up in legal language and political polish. And right now, what’s happening in Louisiana politics has that ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) At a news conference within hours after the shooting rampage at the San Diego Mosque the San Diego Police Chief said the obvious.,” the shooting would be investigated as a hate crime until it’s not.” His add on “it’s not” gave with one hand and took back with the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When he ran to become president, the current occupant in the Oval Office stated, “We’re going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please, it’s too much winning.” I don’t know about you, but I can truly say I need a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) After the 1990 U.S. Census, radical liberal Blacks from the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Congressional Black Caucus, et.al were approached by Lee Atwater, then Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) about working together on congressional redistricting. They were about to be screwed with no Vaseline ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “What Alito doesn’t mention is that since 2013, the racial turnout gap around the nation has exploded. It beggars belief that Alito was unaware of this fact. He reached back nearly 20 years to include the only two elections in American history in which Black and white turnout reached ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There comes a point in life when a grown brother has to slow down and really think about how he presents himself. Down South, old heads used to say folks size you up before you even shake their hand. A man can tell his whole story without saying much ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In the run-up to the June 2 L.A. mayoral race primary, I once more asked myself how did a white Republican, but worse still, a guy with unabashed MAGA credentials ever get into any serious conversation about being L.A.’s next mayor? If that’s not enough, his main claim to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Seventy-one years ago, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. For generations of Black families, Brown represented more than a legal decision. It represented aspiration, validation, and possibility. It affirmed a simple but transformative principle: Black children ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The brutality of the NFL is evident every NFL season. No professional sport has the injury risk that NFL players face and the collisions and force that players make with each other both thrills the fans but takes a toll on the players themselves. In recent years, the National ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) What we are seeing in America today is something that Black people haven’t experienced in a very long time—citizenship with no workable Voting Rights Act in place. Immediately after the Supreme Court’s recent Louisiana v. Callais ruling, five southern states wasted little time in redrawing new congressional voting maps ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump’s visit to China this week arrives at one of the most dangerous and morally complicated moments in modern geopolitical history. The optics will be carefully choreographed: towering skylines, ceremonial handshakes, military precision, economic pledges and polished displays of state power. Beijing understands spectacle. The Chinese Communist Party ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The music world lost a real Southern soul giant with the passing of Clarence Carter at 90 years old. For many Black households, his records were part of everyday life. You heard Clarence Carter playing from somebody’s porch radio, inside an uncle’s old car, at cookouts, blues clubs, or ...