(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the amazing things that occurred quite frequently during Jesus’ earthly ministry was that he had to remind his apostles to keep their focus, concentrate on the vital issues, the really important things, and not to be sidetracked. It was not that these stalwart Galileans had an attention ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As 2026 unfolds, the landscape of international travel for Americans has shifted dramatically under the Trump Administration’s renewed focus on border security, immigration restrictions, and reciprocal travel bans. The administration’s policies, including expanded travel bans and visa restrictions, have not only affected inbound travel to the United States but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s children are growing up in a landscape shaped by persistent educational inequities, the trauma of gun violence, and the psychological toll of civil unrest. For Black and minority children, these forces converge in ways that threaten not only their safety and well-being but also their ability to thrive ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like most Americans, I have had seemingly endless discussions in the wake of the murders of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti at the hands of ICE agents in Minneapolis. Yes, I understand that “murder” is a legal distinction that must be determined in a court. However, what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As this reflection is written, Wynton Marsalis stands at a rare threshold in American cultural life. After nearly forty years, he is preparing to step down as founder and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the institution he helped build into a permanent home for jazz inside one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I read the commentary across social media, legacy media and the broader public discourse surrounding the latest deadly shooting in Minnesota, I see something deeper than disagreement over facts or law. I see a nation struggling to reconcile rights, authority, fear and accountability in moments when events move ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On behalf of the nearly 9 million people who are now in default on their student loans, a coalition of advocates from consumer, civil rights and education organizations are appealing to the federal Education Department to halt its plans to begin garnishing borrower wages this month. Default status connotes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For many Black Americans, Muhammad Ali was never just a boxer. He was a warning, a lesson, a mirror, and in many ways, a permission slip. He gave voice to thoughts many of our parents and grandparents carried quietly in their chests. He stood in public the way a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From the earliest days of the Trump administration, Black Americans recognized a familiar pattern in American leadership—a pattern of betrayal, disregard, and selective loyalty that has long shaped their relationship with the nation. The warnings issued by Black America were not born of cynicism, but of hard-earned wisdom, rooted ...
(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 ...