(ThyBlackMan.com) “We are in a post constitutional moment in our country. Our constitutional institutions, understandings, and practices have all been transformed, over decades, away from the words on the paper into a new arrangement—a new regime if you will—that pays only lip service to the old Constitution.” –  Russell Vought, president, Center ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Access to opportunity has always been shaped by systems that decide who can move, work, study, and build a future in new places. For many communities, especially those historically affected by policy shifts and unequal enforcement, these systems are not abstract ideas. They directly influence family stability, economic security, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When initiating “Negro History Week” in 1926, Dr. Carter G. Woodson chose February for reasons of tradition and reform. It is commonly said that Woodson selected February to encompass the birthdays of two great Americans who played a prominent role in shaping Black history: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sexual assault often happens in places where people reasonably expect to feel safe. In Houston, those places include schools, religious institutions, hospitals, hotels, and even rideshare vehicles. Each setting operates under its own rules, leadership structures, and safety procedures, which shape how reports are handled and how warning signs ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Despite what progressives have been arguing lately, the United States does not have a tax problem. Federal revenues, even after last year’s extension of the Trump tax cuts, are running above their historical average as a share of GDP. What America has is a spending problem so large that ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The news that civil rights icon the reverend Jesse Jackson passed has ignited an avalanche of media and public commentary, reflections, and tributes to him. Jackson for a lengthy period battled a rare neurological disorder that most people had never heard of. And it has often proved fatal. This ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) First of all, let me reiterate, America is a Constitutional Republic. That point is articulated in Article IV, Section 4 of our Constitution, known as the “Guarantee Clause.” It affirms that the federal government is to guarantee a Republican form of government to all States, not the Republican Party. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I was growing up in the ‘60s Martin Luther King, like Frederick Douglass, used the Hebrews’ exodus from Egypt as a metaphor for legitimate grievances against slavery and segregation in America. Back then, progress meant that the journey from slavery, through the wilderness, to the “Promised Land” was ...