(ThyBlackMan.com) The WNBA’s playoff chase is in full effect. One of the teams in the WNBA playoff hunt is the Chicago Sky, which features one of the most well-known players in the league in Candace Parker. Earlier this year, Parker was selected for another WNBA All-Star Game in her great ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) As the world watches the disastrous ending of America‘s nearly 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, we cannot lose sight of what is happening here, just below the media ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One year ago, after the brutal murder of George Floyd, the summer of 2020 gave us a great white awakening to the truth of systemic racism, and the big pledge to address it. For a moment, it seemed like every company had tapped their PR agents to compose pro-BLM ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nearly 20 years to the day that foreign terrorists took down the twin towers in New York City – when thousands of lives were lost and trillions of dollars were spent — the Afghanistan War has ended in utter and complete misery. Now, the White House is trying to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you ask the average Black person about the term BIPOC, a likely response might be “BIPOC”, what is that? Bi-what? Or, Bi-who? BIPOC – Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The more I see the term, the more I wonder where it came from, who created it, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Milton Friedman used to quip that, in Washington, if a government program is working, Congress says we need to spend more money on it. And if a government program is failing, Congress concludes we are not spending enough money on it. We are seeing that in spades with the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The bipartisan group of senators who just passed a $1.1 trillion federal infrastructure bill are attempting to sell it as a reasonable, centrist compromise. Yet it is neither reasonable nor centrist. If approved by the House, the bill would immensely expand the size and power of the federal government, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In April, President Joe Biden told the nation he would have all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack ever on the continental United States. Given the turn of events of the past week, that 20th anniversary may be celebrated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Right-wing Black talk jock Larry Elder should be a bad joke but isn’t. The one person who knows that is the man Elder is trying to unseat in the September California governor recall. That’s California Governor Gavin Newsom. He has sent out a flurry of emails attacking Elder and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a freelance journalist in preparation for the article you now read; this writer took various courses online; that would prepare me for what will be presented here. These were some of the courses and schools involved: Understanding the Brain: University of Chicago Psychological First Aid: Johns Hopkins University ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The coalition, the Democratic Party is depending on to carry it successfully through the 2022 elections, is under economic, and social stress. Democrats, whether they believe it or not will not survive as the majority party, controlling the House of Representatives and Senate, if their coalition of working-class Americans, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While putting the final touches on an essay about the Black Panther Party’s demise, Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton’s view of the group’s biggest mistake shocked me. According to Newton, the Black Panther Party’s most grievous error is Eldridge Cleaver’s unwise decision to distance the Panther Party from ...