(ThyBlackMan.com) Don Lemon is a CNN reporter/personality that I watched for years. I remember the old days where I’d watch Don Lemon Tonight and the live tweets noted how problematic he was. Mind you, at the time he was considered to be problematic for his reporting and discussing racial issues ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s been over 30 years since Justice Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court seat once held by the great Thurgood Marshall, and it’s safe to say that his reputation for unethical behavior – which was poor to start with – has only gotten worse. What are we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent years, there has been growing concern over the rise in crime rates across the country. While some may attribute this increase to factors such as poverty and lack of education, which shouldn’t be dismissed, it is essential to consider the role of personal responsibility and individual choice ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After yet another mass shooting made headlines recently — this time, at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky — the chief medical officer for University of Louisville Health gained national attention as he shared his emotional thoughts on the regular toll gun violence takes. As Dr. Jason Smith spoke at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) More than 1,000 scientists, engineers, many of them leaders in the Big Tech industry, recently signed an open letter calling for a pause in the development of the newest artificial intelligence (AI) systems, suggesting some of their super intelligence machines could no longer be controlled by humans. They called for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We’re almost a quarter into the 21st century and racism is still a heated topic in America. A major contributing factor to the flames of racism is just the history of this country. Throughout primary and secondary school, there was a bit of American exceptionalism taught when it came ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The fact that power is meant to be shared and every voice is meant to be heard is the beauty of democracy. The failure of democracy is not the system itself, but the people who we put into the system. It takes it certain type of person to be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After more than three decades of involvement at the highest levels of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, I am still amazed that radical Black liberals like Roland Martin have no answers to “real” Black conservatives like me and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. Roland is a Democrat ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The abolitionist journalist Ida B. Wells’s quest to document lynchings began when three of her friends, Tommy Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Will Stewart, were lynched because whites were envious of their economic success. Moss, a highly regarded pastor, postal worker (a great job in the South in the 1890s), ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yes, there are people that need to get up and work. Some take advantage of the system, and something about it should feel wrong to them…too bad it doesn’t. There are parents out there pimping their children for a check and having children for a check while not properly tending ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) TikTok has become a global sensation in recent years, with millions of users sharing and viewing a seemingly endless array of short-form videos on the platform. However, the app’s ownership by the Chinese behemoth ByteDance raises grave national security concerns regarding the risks the app presents to the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So here we go again. Once more, the country is in the grip of a Donald Trump drama, when there are so many other important issues we need to address. As the world now knows, Trump has been indicted in New York on charges related to paying hush money ...