(ThyBlackMan.com) Folks have argued over that question for years. You hear it inside classrooms, barber shops, college dorms, family cookouts, and old church parking lots after Sunday service. Who is the most famous Black poet? Everybody got an opinion. Some lean toward Maya Angelou because her words reached millions across ...
(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) When the U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1787, the words, “We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union,” were written as the opening of the Constitution’s statement of purpose. The “We the People” reference is a statement of inclusion that sounds inspiring ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “As The World Turns,” you can count on radical Black liberal Democrat operatives trying to convince “The Young and The Restless” that they should begin “To Search for Tomorrow” because Donald Trump and the “racist” U.S. Supreme Court is dismantling “The Guiding Light” of the Voting Rights Act of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Much has been made of the advanced education of the latest would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, whom the suspect described in a manifesto as a “pedophile,” “rapist” and “traitor.” He graduated from the California Institute of Technology, one of the most selective schools in the country. As to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at Oklahoma State University for their Young America’s Foundation (YAF) speakers series. The topic was “American Sovereignty: The Constitution and Illegal Immigration.” One would think that a college and university campus would be a place where diverse insights, perspectives, and debate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During a private Easter luncheon at the White House, President Donald Trump made his position on child care funding unmistakably clear. He told attendees that he told Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought: “Don’t send any money for day care, because the United States can’t take care ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As my followers know, I have been and am very critical of my Black community, especially the media appointed Black leaders and organizations. We face a myriad of problems in the U.S. and within the Black community. One of the biggest problems facing America is that we have been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Amazon cuts 30,000 jobs and Black workers hold nearly 20% of the roles being eliminated while making up just 13% of the workforce, that is not a coincidence. That is a pattern. And it is accelerating. The layoffs are part of a broader AI driven economic shift that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Marion Orr’s House of Diggs is the kind of political biography that feels personal, especially for Black readers who understand how deeply representation, power, and community are intertwined. This isn’t just a story about a congressman; it’s a story about a man who carried the hopes of Black Detroit, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I know I preface a lot of what I write with “when I was growing up,” or “in my childhood.” But it is factual and rings poetic. In my early years, a movie called “Carwash“ came out. It is a 1976 comedy set over the course of a single ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For many years we have heard about Tuskegee airmen. A few years ago, we had the opportunity to see the movie Red Tails. We were delighted in the fact that they were Black as they performed seemingly impossible feats. Now may be a time for people wanting to be involved ...