(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many ways to measure the health of a country. One way is growth of gross domestic product. Another is economic productivity. But there’s a less conventional measure worth watching: Do the world’s most talented and ambitious people want to immigrate here? Throughout most of America’s history, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has demonstrated a hopeless conflict between the rule of law — which he has taken an oath to support — and his sense of personal loyalty to President Donald Trump, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Trump administration is not eliminating workplace discrimination. It is eliminating the receipts. On July 23, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proposed abolishing the EEO-1 report and five related workforce reports. For nearly sixty years, EEO-1 has required large private employers to report the race, ethnicity and sex ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The spirit behind the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to firmly free the nation of systemic racial discrimination by ensuring that a citizen’s vote actually mattered—a concept known as meaningful representation. Meaningful representation means people are not just allowed to vote, but they have a fair opportunity to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tuskegee University announced this month that bonnets, do-rags, and bedroom shoes will no longer be permitted in its classrooms and cafeteria, and the fuss that followed says more about us than any scrap of cloth ever could. Give me a minute with that, because the noise came fast and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I believe you need to know that you are valuable! So many of us in today’s society are discounted and written off as unworthy. But, God has instructed me to let you know that to Him you are more valuable than you can compute! We look at our economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bible has the knack for cutting through the fog of uncertainty and ambivalence and getting to the heart of the matter with a directness and clarity that is awesome. If people saw the Bible for what it really is – a roadmap to the heart and the mind ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you are of a certain age, you were told growing up that, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The earliest known public use of this proverb or adage was on March 22, 1862, in The Christian Recorder newspaper. The Christian Recorder ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Philadelphia 76ers have assembled one of the most aggressive roster overhauls of this NBA offseason, and the biggest piece arrived Friday morning when a 41 year old free agent decided where he would continue playing. Man, listen. I have been watching this brother play professional ball since my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) American memory rarely allows complicated men to stay complicated, and few figures in our history have been flattened more thoroughly than the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. I came up hearing two versions of Booker T. Washington, and neither one sounded like a human being. In my grandmother’s front ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2024, two hotels and several residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district sued the city, alleging it is using the neighborhood as a containment zone for rampant illegal drug use and other vices, making the residents terrified to leave their homes and businesses unable to recruit staff. According to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The most persistent weakness in our political tradition is no shortage of talent or courage, but a habit of waiting on one anointed figure to carry an entire race across the finish line. I have been voting since Carter, and I have watched this cycle spin around more times ...