(ThyBlackMan.com) What is happening in Minnesota should be the kind of wake-up call for Americans who still fail to recognize the truth about this administration and need to understand the grave situation we face as a nation. We are seeing evidence that the abuse of power by Trump administration officials is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Few thinkers spoke to the interior life of Black America with the clarity, compassion, and insistence of bell hooks. Her work never asked readers to perform enlightenment. It asked them to be honest. Honest about pain. Honest about love. Honest about power. Honest about responsibility. bell hooks understood that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In Minnesota this winter, amid the steady stream of grim headlines out of Minneapolis, one story barely made it beyond Duluth’s city limits. The Duluth News Tribune and other regional outlets are inviting residents to dig into the city’s archives, retell old stories, and share plans for America’s upcoming ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A lot of Black men do not actually hate exercise. What we hate is the gym. The mirrors, the noise, the unspoken competition, the feeling that you are being watched or judged the moment you walk in. After working long hours, dealing with family responsibilities, financial pressure, and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many aspects to church service. All of them are necessary as they serve different purposes that support one another. Praise and worship are an important part of church; corporate prayer is also important. There is power in coming together at the altar to pray and uplift one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Accountability in every relationship and individually is very important. There can be no growth without it, and in its absence relationships fall apart. There is strife in this country, within ethnicities, in our communities, in our churches, and in our families due to a lack of accountability. Everyone wants ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Walking stays undefeated after 40 because your body starts keeping score. Not in dramatic ways, just subtle reminders. The knee that needs a second to warm up. The back that wants respect before movement. The energy that doesn’t stretch as far as it used to. That’s when you realize ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In your mind, you may be thinking, what book have I read that spawned me to think about to write on what I am about to print? What can I say? With that stated, the decades-old allegations of welfare fraud by immigrant Somali communities across the nation, in concert ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes life is not that difficult to figure out. Politicians from both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, along with their billionaire, and millionaire dollar donors, corporate sponsors, and professional political advisors make life economically difficult and downright tough for Americans, American workers, professional, blue collar, union, and working-class Americans, when they just don’t have to give the average American, such a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By all appearances, the President of the United States is setting the stage to invoke the Insurrection Act — which he has threatened more than once to do in Minneapolis — under the pretense of combatting domestic terrorism. Adopted in 1807, the Insurrection Act is a federal law that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we enter 2026, Americans of all walks of life are witnessing the continuing political and cultural shifts in our nation. While these shifts began long before last year’s presidential election, the return of the Trump administration to power has accelerated the pace of changes impacting our nation economically, ...