(ThyBlackMan.com) I was on the radio this morning with Rev. Jesse Jackson. Other guests on the show included Dr. Marc Lamont Hill of Columbia University, Ohio State University professor and criminal justice expert Michelle Alexander, Tavis Smiley, and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Emanuel Cleaver, among others. The topic of conversation, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At the signing of the historic Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965 striking down the discriminatory practices many states had put in place to prohibit Blacks from exercising their right to vote, President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Republican Party is often referred to as the GOP (Grand Old Party). Established in 1854, this party has grown to build a reputation as one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. With a dedicated platform reflecting American conservatism, the GOP has been considered ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By now, most of us have become accustomed to the all-too familiar notion of the politics of distraction. With pressing issues like near double-digit unemployment, skyrocketing gas prices, a lingering budget deficit, growing international crises, struggling job growth and more, many on the right would rather avoid creating real ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Letting go of striving to be something other than we are… Peace of mind is something we all seem to want, and want more of. Few of us get it, and when we do it tends to be fleeting. I think the reason has something to do with how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The field of Republican candidates seeking their party’s presidential nomination, and the right to take on President Obama in November 2012, is already taking a turn for the bizarre. As each hopeful tries to move further to the right than the other, and claim to be the legitimate standard-bearer of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The history of African Americans is one of great accomplishments amidst the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. That legacy follows black people, and particularly black men, to this day. And it is enough to make you red-hot burning mad. Although some are ready to usher in a new ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama made the right decision not to release the photos of the body of bin Laden. The reasons he gave initially were that releasing the photos would endanger US security, inflame Muslim hardliners, and turn the bin Laden killing into an exercise in prurient, gory, bloodlust voyeurism still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although I am a political junkie going way back, I stopped watching talking head shows year ago. I find them to be tedious personality pageants that are short on issues, long on ego. But a recent tete-a-tete between Al Sharpton and Cornel West on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” made ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama had a meeting today with members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in the State Dining Room of the White House. The focus of the meeting, according to White House officials, was to discuss job creation and economic growth. During the meeting, President Obama acknowledged the concern ...