(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most repetitious yet bemusing moments that repeats itself in my courses occurs after I cover the indispensable contributions of Civil Rights attorney Charles Hamilton Houston’s fight for racial equality. Despite common misconceptions, Houston, not his protégé Thurgood Marshall, matters most mightily in the buildup to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Disputes over COVID treatments and mandates are indicative of where the country is today. Full of contradictions, hypocrisy, fear, anger and ignorance. Vaccine mandates for children have all but wiped out infectious diseases like measles and polio in the school-age population. Science works. Yet, because of spurious arguments and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Truthfully, I can’t pinpoint where my belief that self-conception is crucial to politico-economic allegiance began. It could be that politicized parents raised me. Maybe it was reading Marcus “Mosiah” Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois’ calls for Black folk to turn inward and take care of their own, or perhaps it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are only two teams left standing in the NBA as the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks play in the NBA Finals. Despite valiant efforts from the Clippers and Hawks, respectively, their players head into the off-season. Few professions in America get as long of a layoff from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine a world where workers have real power. In this world, workers are paid a living wage, are protected by a strong union, and wield enough political clout to ensure Congress passes pro-worker laws. Corporations can’t treat them like robots and abandon communities to find cheaper labor elsewhere. It is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A lot of people don’t care about the nation’s growing debt. Some believe that low interest rates for the foreseeable future essentially means a free lunch for the government. Others believe that no matter what the cost of this debt, it is all worth it because of the purported ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court just undercut the Voting Rights Act again. Having gutted the section that required pre-approval of state voting laws to protect the rights of minorities to vote in Shelby v. Holder, Republican-appointed justices now have castrated the backup clause — Section 2 — ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Donald J. Trump recently filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Miami against the Big Tech companies that have denied him a platform. He has targeted Twitter and Facebook, whose media platforms he had used with spectacular success before and during his presidency to advance his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Black Men, Greetings Gents. I hope this letter finds you in good spirits. I’m doing fine. Thanks for asking. I am writing this letter because of a conversation I had with a good friend of mine. For sake of this letter, we will call her Adrian. Adrian is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Joe Biden’s first months in office have been fraught with challenges. His administration has been actively working on a variety of different fronts and there are a number of things that are a cause for concern, as well as hope and optimism. Biden is hustling, but it is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It started almost the instant that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that California senator Kamala Harris was his VP pick in 2020. The “it” was the sniping, rumor-mongering, and flat-out attacks on Harris. The knock-on her was that she was the perennial “angry Black woman.” This ancient stereotype ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If I as a woman didn’t use my instincts and intellect, I probably would’ve become a victim of violence in America. As a survivor of sexual molestation in the late 1970s, I am among a few whose molester did not penetrate me. Many people have suffered horrific childhood abuse. ...