(ThyBlackMan.com) Seventy-one years ago, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. For generations of Black families, Brown represented more than a legal decision. It represented aspiration, validation, and possibility. It affirmed a simple but transformative principle: Black children ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The brutality of the NFL is evident every NFL season. No professional sport has the injury risk that NFL players face and the collisions and force that players make with each other both thrills the fans but takes a toll on the players themselves. In recent years, the National ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What we are seeing in America today is something that Black people haven’t experienced in a very long time—citizenship with no workable Voting Rights Act in place. Immediately after the Supreme Court’s recent Louisiana v. Callais ruling, five southern states wasted little time in redrawing new congressional voting maps ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump’s visit to China this week arrives at one of the most dangerous and morally complicated moments in modern geopolitical history. The optics will be carefully choreographed: towering skylines, ceremonial handshakes, military precision, economic pledges and polished displays of state power. Beijing understands spectacle. The Chinese Communist Party ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The music world lost a real Southern soul giant with the passing of Clarence Carter at 90 years old. For many Black households, his records were part of everyday life. You heard Clarence Carter playing from somebody’s porch radio, inside an uncle’s old car, at cookouts, blues clubs, or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The May 12 inflation report confirmed what many Americans already know in their bones: while economists debate indicators and politicians boast about growth, ordinary people increasingly feel as though they are running on fumes. Prices rise, stabilize briefly, and then rise again, while wages lag behind the escalating costs ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every summer I notice the same thing happening. Parks fill up. Basketball courts get louder. Brothers start jogging through neighborhoods again. Gyms stay packed later into the evening. You can almost feel people trying to shake stress off physically. As an Older fella, I understand exactly why that happens. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In politics, fear has a color. For most of American history, that color has been Black. No ad has taught that lesson more brutally than the Willie Horton ad of 1988. It showed the face of a Black man convicted of murder. It blamed Michael Dukakis for a furlough ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In California, two of the country’s most closely watched political races are unfolding in front of voters — the Los Angeles mayoral contest and the Democrat dogpile to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom. Both races are crowded with progressive candidates, each trying to one-up the others in a bid to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The British election should serve as a warning to Democrats who let their left fringe run riot with scant criticism. Too many Democratic strategists and friends in the progressive media read the noise coming from the far left as evidence of broader public opinion than warranted, even among Democrats. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ever feel like your life is traveling along a certain path then out of the blue you slam into a road block or dead end. Sure, your minding your own business, pursing your own dreams and there it is a sign post stuck in the middle of the road ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nothing would make California Democrats, less Democrats, and more a laughingstock than the election of an up-front MAGA California governor. Note I said MAGA governor not a Republican governor. One candidate, the front runner, Steve Hilton, proudly gushes over the endorsement he got from Trump. The other, Riverside County ...