(ThyBlackMan.com) When Charles Diggs, Jr. won election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city of Detroit had at least one Black member of Congress. That’s likely to change this year. Because of redistricting, Detroit no longer has majority-Black congressional districts. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s been a growing worker union movement in 2022. Workers are turning to labor unions at traditionally non-union companies like Trader Joe’s, Amazon, REI, Target, Chipotle, Starbucks, Apple, and more. “Seventy-one percent of Americans now approve of labor unions,” Gallup announced in reference to its annual Work and Education ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are a few facts that we can’t get around. Our people are dying in the streets at the hands of civil servants. We don’t spend tax dollars to be killed. Compliance does not guarantee we will be treated fairly. Compliance doesn’t mean we will stay alive. We don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been debating the pros and cons of the impact of sports on the Black community with my good friend, and political commentator, Playthell Benjamin for several years now. Playthell is a huge sports fan and is of the belief that sports have been invaluable in their impact on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us could live a whole lifetime and have no discussions about the calculations surrounding our unemployment rates. The subject of Job Rates generally comes up, if there are projected layoffs, in our immediate future. That makes sense because of the economic upheaval a job loss causes, in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I spend a considerable amount of time around student records. Some records were more confidential which caused me to use additional discretion and caution. Student records contain data and information that not everyone needs to see. A person whether they are related to the student or not can’t just ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has been quite a month of August for major news for some accomplished Black professional athletes. On August 4th, WNBA star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in Russian prison after being detained for months in Russia after the Russian Federal Customs Service found vape cartridges containing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Single-dads are fast becoming the unsung heroes of parenting. Whether raising a child alone or co-parenting, the challenges faced by this fast-growing sector of American society are huge. In fact, the last fifty years has seen a veritable explosion of single-dads in American society. According to the Pew Research ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Benefits of a long life include lived memory and perspective. Today, it is easy to despair about America – with its extreme inequality, its continuing racial divide, its fragile democracy, Its partisan feuds, and the shaky state of an economy hammered by pandemic and catastrophic climate change. Yet it’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You can bet on it. The “it” is that on the twenty-first anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks the conspiracy theorists will again come out of the woodwork with the many commemorations and memorial tributes scheduled. The mountain of uncontestable facts about who the 9/11 perpetrators were and ...