(ThyBlackMan.com) Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law the CARES Act to provide emergency measures to help us get through the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 shutdown. A crucial objective was to provide funds to the many individuals who suddenly found themselves cash-strapped and unable to pay ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2003, during the George W. Bush administration, the columnist Charles Krauthammer coined the phrase “Bush Derangement Syndrome” to refer to some of the president’s more unhinged critics. It was funny, and given Krauthammer’s background — he was a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry — it had the ring ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Schools remain shuttered across the country, 30 million Americans are out of work, and food banks are running low, but the edutech sector is booming. Silicon Valley companies are feasting on an exploding client base of quarantined students held hostage to “online learning.” Big Google is leading the way ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Bill Clinton. Producer Harvey Weinstein. Former Today show host Matt Lauer. The late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. What do these powerful men have in common? In addition to being very powerful, these men were also highly esteemed in their respective trades. They possessed inflated personalities at the height of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) COVID-19 has changed the course of life for virtually every human being on the planet. Across the globe, peoples, governments, businesses and institutions have had to fundamentally alter their ways of being and moving. In most locales, restrictions have been imposed on travel, on work and even on staying at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The instant that presumptive Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden pledged that he would pick a woman as his VP running mate, it started. The “it” was the clamor for Biden to pick not just a woman, but a Black woman on the ticket. By then the names quickly tossed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in 1988, Public Enemy recorded “Bring the Noise.” It appears as the first song on the A-side of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and also had the strength to chart peaking at 56 in the U.S. The song featured a couple of shout ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America! “I want you to get up right now and go to the window…open it and stick your head out and yell, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!” That is from the 1976 movie, “Network”. https://bit.ly/3aOxYjm It is the appropriate response to totalitarian governors, hellbent on keeping ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are three issues, or better yet, concerns, for Democrats in the allegation by Joe Biden’s former staffer Tara Reade that he sexually harassed and assaulted her. They all have direct bearing on Biden’s chance to oust Trump. The first is how Trump will use the allegation against him. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Growing up hip-hop is different for everyone. Hip-hop connected early for some folks, for others it hit a little later, and still there are those who are so far removed from the themes in a lot of hip-hop that they can’t relate. Also, depending on the period, the music ...