(ThyBlackMan.com) The Trump administration is not eliminating workplace discrimination. It is eliminating the receipts. On July 23, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proposed abolishing the EEO-1 report and five related workforce reports. For nearly sixty years, EEO-1 has required large private employers to report the race, ethnicity and sex ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence and supercomputing technologies has many Americans worried about the future of their careers. In a survey last month, more than half of U.S. workers expressed concern that AI could take their job or the job of a family member. Another survey in December ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democrat career politician Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island — who is now serving his 19th year in the U.S. Senate — has introduced a bill that would impose an 18-year term limit. But this term limit would not apply to members of Congress. It would apply to Supreme Court ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The spirit behind the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to firmly free the nation of systemic racial discrimination by ensuring that a citizen’s vote actually mattered—a concept known as meaningful representation. Meaningful representation means people are not just allowed to vote, but they have a fair opportunity to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After all these centuries and all we have been through together, we think it’s appropriate for us to show our gratitude for all you have done for us. And we start by acknowledging your wish to use an [a] instead of [er] at the end of n**ger. It took ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump ran as the “peace candidate” bodaciously claiming he would stop the existing wars and promising no new forever wars and an era of peace and prosperity. Many people who were weary of war fell for his lies and false promises. He said he would intervene to put ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) American memory rarely allows complicated men to stay complicated, and few figures in our history have been flattened more thoroughly than the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. I came up hearing two versions of Booker T. Washington, and neither one sounded like a human being. In my grandmother’s front ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of today’s consumer loans are legal but abusive. Payday lenders and used car sellers often steer customers into costly contracts they barely understand. Low-income borrowers with jobs, and therefore, dependable cash flow to siphon off, are favored targets. Sure, there’s a sucker born every minute, as P.T. Barnum ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2024, two hotels and several residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district sued the city, alleging it is using the neighborhood as a containment zone for rampant illegal drug use and other vices, making the residents terrified to leave their homes and businesses unable to recruit staff. According to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The most persistent weakness in our political tradition is no shortage of talent or courage, but a habit of waiting on one anointed figure to carry an entire race across the finish line. I have been voting since Carter, and I have watched this cycle spin around more times ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In righteously remembering and retrieving the enduring legacy of Nana Ida B. Wells- Barnett, we practice the morality of remembrance, honoring a womanist warrior who troubled and transformed the life-shaping waters of the world. She was an awesome ancestor, one of those whose name we will always honor, whose ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The New York City Public School system is 62% Black and Hispanic. At its eight most prestigious competitive high schools, 80% of the students are Asian or White. Wait — what’s considered the most selective of the city’s schools, Stuyvesant High, 777 students were offered slots. Of those, how ...