(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we move and make our way through the troubled, treacherous and trap-laden waters of our time, we, as a people, are morally compelled to deal deliberately and decisively with the many critical issues that confront us and call us to action. We speak here of the ethical imperative ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump continually blasts the Federal Reserve, chaired by Jerome Powell for not lowering interest rates facilitating what is called, “a cheap money economy.” When Mr. Trump calls for lower interest rates, he is asking for cheap money. Naturally, when the Federal Reserve raises or lowers interest rates, it affects ...