(ThyBlackMan.com) Black men mental health awareness is not a trend, a moment, or a talking point meant to circulate briefly and disappear. It is not something that can be addressed with a few public service announcements or occasional social media posts. It is a lived, daily reality shaped by history, ...
(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) Hip hop has always been political whether it wanted to be or not. From its earliest days in the Bronx, the culture spoke truth to power, chronicled poverty, resisted authority, and gave voice to communities ignored by mainstream America. Even when the music leaned toward escapism, the backdrop was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Measles is a “cost of doing business,” says a highly placed official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I’d like to know what business that is. To be fair, let me finish the CDC principal deputy director’s quote. Ralph Abraham said that measles is a cost of ...
(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 ...
(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 ...