(ThyBlackMan.com) When it comes to singing about love, very few artists have ever done it as honestly as Mary J. Blige. From the moment her voice hit the airwaves in the early nineties, it was clear she was not interested in fairy tales. Mary sang about love the way people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Factually, the United States economy is not enjoying a full employment economy, as President Donald Trump implies by presenting the official rate of unemployment for November, as 4.6%. Trump stating the nation’s unemployment rate is 4.6%, means 95% of United States’ workers, are fully employed. The estimated size of the U.S. work force is, 170 million people. Investopedia, a highly regarded financial educational web ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember in February 2002 when former SecDef Donald Rumsfeld came up with this logic, “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America stands between two evils, and the truth is blunt enough to bruise: If Trump’s birther-style executive order that is now before the Supreme Court were carried out, millions of longtime residents—many of them Latino, African, Caribbean, and Asian—would suddenly be reclassified as “non-citizens,” and candidates for deportation, even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The soul and funk world lost a true original with the passing of Carl Carlton. While his name may not always be the loudest in mainstream retrospectives, his voice and grooves have lived quietly and powerfully inside the culture for decades. Carlton was one of those artists whose music ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Trump administration has announced it is appropriating twelve billion dollars to provide aid to the US agricultural industry as a means to offset their loss of foreign sales. While this is good news to US agribusiness it obfuscates the real reasons they are suffering, Trump’s bonehead tariffs and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When people talk about LeBron James, the conversation usually starts with points, championships, longevity, or debates about where he ranks all time. That is understandable, but it is also incomplete. LeBron is more than a basketball player. He is a product of a particular American moment, a particular Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The phrase ‘I hope it was worth it’ is one that most Black men and people in general have encountered at least once in their lives. As you read this article, somewhere in the United States of America, a Black man has just heard that imposing phrase, “I hope ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As an Evangelical Christian, I am amazed, amused and appalled by the fact that so many of my fellow believers seem not to understand the ignorance, irony and hypocrisy of their stance regarding Sharia. I am specifically referring to those who identify as “Christian nationalists” and are very outspoken ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have written several columns this year about how the Trump administration is open for business, especially when it comes to small business. Some have derided my optimism regarding this assertion. To those who have derided me, I have one response. In the immortal words of rapper Kool Moe ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every December, we celebrate the story of a child born in a manger. We adorn nativity scenes with soft light and warm sentiment, but we rarely linger on the truth of the story: Jesus was born housing insecure. There was no room at the inn. His family was displaced, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sean Combs: The Reckoning streamed to a huge audience on Netflix. What Reckoning doesn’t say or show is how and why Sean Combs represents a piece of many of us. That starts with why his story is even a story and why he is so well-known and in a perverse way still fawned ...