(ThyBlackMan.com) In his run-up to the midterm elections, the president is crisscrossing the country in an effort to energize his base. Unfortunately, he seeks to inflame his base with multiple exaggerations, obfuscations, half-truths, and downright bald-faced lies. Thus, he told Oklahoma’s News 9 on October 1, “So we have the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a video that garnered nearly 2,000,000 views across social platforms, Howard University Dental School student Darian Bogie told his followers how the Big Beautiful Bill, and its new caps on graduate school loans, pushed him out of his dental program. Due to the reach of his story, Bogie was able ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Buckle up, the next 100 days in the US will be historic. They will also probably lead to the utter disappearance of what remaining aspects of representative democracy exist. Let’s take a look. In what was considered no surprise, media reports circulated that Russian, Iranian, Chinese and other foreign ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The obsession with the Confederate battle flag never ended. The Confederate battle flag is not just a generic flag. It is associated with those who sought secession from the Union for the purpose of defending slavery. It later became a prominent emblem of organized resistance to racial equality and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the midterm elections nearing, Democrats are surging ahead in the polls, offering rhetoric about a “failed Republican economy.” But the facts show that the first two years of Republican control have produced impressive economic gains, especially for minorities, women and workers on the bottom rungs of the economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Any time spent on social media — X in particular — makes it very clear that conservative Americans are utterly fed up with congressional Republicans. And with good reason. The current (119th) Congress has set records for what The Washington Post called “low legislative output” — second only to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The American people are right to be angry. They work hard, pay their taxes, struggle with inflation, and watch the price of groceries, housing, utilities, and insurance continue to climb. Meanwhile, too many politicians arrive in Washington and somehow leave far wealthier than when they entered. That is not public ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Haven’t we seen this movie before? Voters, weary of a Republican president whose foreign or domestic policies don’t seem to be delivering as promised, seem on the verge of a massive rejection of his party. Polls show Democrats surging. The generic ballot — which party’s candidates would you favor ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and executions of many whom Henry wanted out of the way, including his two predecessors in office — one of whom was St. Thomas More — and even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is the federal government’s history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so, and legislators sure act that way. Federal debt held by the public now equals the size of the annual economy — and is growing. Yet investors continue buying Treasury ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The White House was built in part by enslaved Black people. They quarried stone, hauled materials and did skilled work. The wages recorded for their labor went to their enslavers. That history ought to haunt every occupant of the building. It also ought to sharpen our attention to families ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Standing up to a bully requires more than slogans, press releases or carefully staged outrage. It requires looking power in the face, refusing intimidation and saying, plainly, no. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty has that courage. The Ohio Democrat and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus is standing virtually alone ...