(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to know when somebody is talking with us and when somebody is talking at us. That is part of what makes the Donald Trump conversation so tiring. It is not always about whether a person likes the man, dislikes him, voted for him, prayed ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Kamala Harris is one of those public figures I have had to sit with a little bit. I cannot say I ever looked at her and felt only one thing. There was some pride, sure, but there were questions too, and I do not believe Black voters should feel ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When Barack Obama first started rising nationally, a lot of brothers paid attention immediately because something about him felt different. I am not even talking politics at first either. I am talking about the way the man carried himself. Calm. Sharp. Measured. The brother looked like somebody who thought ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) If the reports in your prompt are accurate, then America just got another reminder that political tension can turn dangerous in a matter of seconds. A sitting president being rushed out of a public event after a shooting scare is not just a headline. It is a warning sign ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Some deaths feel distant. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s passing feels personal. It lands like losing an elder you never lived with but somehow grew up around. For a lot of Black folks, especially Black men who came of age watching the civil rights generation grow older on television, Jesse wasn’t ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black men financial stress is something most of us know well, even if we do not always call it that. We feel it in our chest when the bills are due. We feel it in our silence when somebody asks how things are going. We feel it when we ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip hop has always been political whether it wanted to be or not. From its earliest days in the Bronx, the culture spoke truth to power, chronicled poverty, resisted authority, and gave voice to communities ignored by mainstream America. Even when the music leaned toward escapism, the backdrop was ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Christopher Rufo has become one of the most influential and polarizing conservative intellectuals of the last decade, despite not holding public office, running for election, or leading a traditional political movement. In an era where politics increasingly plays out through media ecosystems rather than legislative chambers, Rufo represents a ...