(ThyBlackMan.com) The (s)election is over, the votes have been cast, most of the votes have been counted and a winner has been declared, named Donald J Trump. For many of his followers this is great news, a huge victory, it’s an exoneration a vindication a redemption of sorts. For them, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Vice President ran a beautiful campaign.  She worked like a trojan, traveling from city to city, sometimes as many as three or four in a day.  She did interviews, town halls, television shows and one on one interviews with both national and local media.  In a scant one hundred ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I lied to my son. As if the election result cementing Donald Trump as our next President again wasn’t enough of a punch to the face, a conversation with my 11-year son on Wednesday was the gut punch that dropped me to the canvas. After returning home from school, flabbergasted as ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I was on a Black Women’s organizing call the other week, when one of the leaders challenged each of us to reach out to ten people to encourage them to vote.  I don’t know a soul in my close circle who does not vote, and I don’t seek out ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) They say politics makes for strange bedfellows meaning the quest for power often unites the most disparate and unlikely individuals and groups as allies in their quest for power. Total opposites, antagonists and others find themselves linked in pursuit of their goals for power. We are seeing this play ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, two of the nation’s most venerable and well-respected newspapers, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, decided not to endorse a candidate in this year’s presidential election. Those decisions have been largely met with derision and disappointment, primarily because the assumption is that the papers’ owners are ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) With just days to go until Nov, 5, we have officially entered the final stretch of the election. The heat is on, the candidates are feeling the pinch, and the rhetoric we see on our TVs and in our feeds is starting to go off the rails. Case in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in 2011, then-President Barack Obama delivered a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, which had become increasingly critical of him in his second term. In particular, the CBC was urging the president to do more for African Americans, whose unemployment level stood at nearly 17%.  At the end ...