(ThyBlackMan.com) A war has been declared in this country. And the fight isn’t just for diversity, equity, and inclusion or for fair economic and criminal justice practices. It’s for the soul of America. It’s to determine which of us will have an opportunity not to prosper, but merely survive in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This month we have been subjected to a mountain of lies, disinformation, flip flopping and insults to our intelligence by the powers who shouldn’t be. On June 13th the renegade nation of Israel launched unprovoked attacks on Iran and the United States joined them is this blatant violation of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Epstein files were the longest way from my mind to write about this week. I thought I would be writing about the great Appeals Court decision overturning of that conviction of Baltimore’s former brilliant State’s Attorney, Marilyn Mosby. We know she was convicted while doing what more than 35,000 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, the change in administration provided our nation with a four-year reprieve from much of the misery we are currently experiencing during the early months of Trump’s second term in office. Multiple times during Trump’s first administration (2017–2021), the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many moons ago, I was a new educator at the collegiate level. This writer was teaching in a diverse classroom at Concordia University. This process required intentional strategies to ensure all students felt valued, respected, and supported in their learning. This would also include understanding individual learning needs, incorporating diverse perspectives, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, his authoritarian rhetoric, his multiple indictments, his multiple sexual assault allegations, his liable for sexual abuse, his contempt for institutional checks and balances, his racist behavior and racist immigration policies, his numerous unconstitutional executive orders, his firing of federal employees, his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The day after I read the report by the justice advocacy group, the Vera Institute, on the astronomical number of deaths in the L.A. County Jail, I acted. I held a press briefing in front of the Men’s Jail. Over one hundred men have died at the jail in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Trump and Netanyahu huddle together in their twin blood-soaked cocoons and caves of hubris and holocaust denial of the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people and plot what new atrocities they will impose on the different and vulnerable, it is urgently important that we, as persons and a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The nation is afflicted with an epidemic of mal-parenting. How do we know? The persistence of shocking levels of juvenile delinquency and crime. The poster child case is Ethan Crumbley, guilty of murdering four students at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan in 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is discerning and disturbing to witness young men and women wearing Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) uniforms faces covered descending on playgrounds, slithering into classrooms and institutions of faith with guns and tasers drawn. Interrogating children as to where they were born and where their parents were born. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The pain that millions of Americans will feel from the Republicans’ megabill is real. It may take time for the reality and pain of the new domestic policy to hit, but it will eventually come, and it will not be pleasant. Part of the current pain is knowing that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Within the space of twenty-four hours L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors announced a package of aid and support programs for immigrants and immigrant rights groups. The funding for the programs will come from public and private sources. The move by Bass and the ...