(ThyBlackMan.com) The Iowa caucuses may still be months away, but it’s already crunch time for Republican presidential candidates (myself included). Here’s the situation: To qualify for the first Republican primary debate next week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) is requiring each candidate to attract 40,000 individual donors and register at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Around the time of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia (1676-1677), the word “white” appears in a legal document for the first time in our history to denote distinct “races” of people. In particular, the document distinguishes “white” people from “Africans”, prohibiting them from marrying each other. The ultimate purpose of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us have been consumed with the antics of Donald Trump for far too long. It’s clear that those won’t end soon, but he seems to be in good hands now for us to believe justice will be served. He’s in good hands with Judge Tanya Chutkan who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Each generation of Black folk have produced a new chop of social activists. Social activists who push and pull the race closer to obtaining the goal of racial and social freedom, justice and equality. Today’s new generation of Black social activists have been quite effective in using social media ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) More than one million Americans told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week that they aren’t willing to wait any longer. Their comments insisting that EPA move forward quickly to cut carbon pollution from new and existing coal and natural gas-burning power plants were delivered in person in Washington by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged from obscurity to attempt a political comeback. Facing low poll numbers, she has barnstormed political events around the country to carry the message of the Democratic Party — and attempt to recapture the luster that made her a historic candidate in 2020. Notably, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, should immediately drop out of his longshot bid to win the Republican nomination and spare himself and his family further embarrassment. If he continues down this road of race-baiting and condescension towards the Black community, he just might disqualify himself from consideration of a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America was founded on an idea – that all people had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – and if that right was to flourish, it must be grounded in democracy – in the basic right of all to choose their own leaders, to vote ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Conservative Evangelicalism is the philosophical belief system permeating different churches within Christianity—especially in the South, that seeks to retain their stringent biblical traditional beliefs of Christianity. It seeks to influence politics and public policy with its exclusive interpretation of the teachings of Christianity. It is a political movement of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the vast tapestry of American education, certain states shine brighter, setting benchmarks that others can only aspire to reach. As we navigate the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century, it’s worth pausing and reflecting on what these trailblazing states are doing right. Their success stories aren’t just ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the US Supreme Court in 1973 rendered its decision on Roe v. Wade polling showed that Blacks more than any other grouping in the US opposed abortion. The decision basically protected as a constitutional right the ability to have an abortion. Many Black civil rights activists at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the field of candidates dreaming to win the Republican nomination for president, I am rooting for Donald Trump. By the way, Field of Dreams is a wonderful baseball movie. However, with baseball’s adoption of the pitch clock it probably ensures that future outstanding books and movies like The ...