(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent years, the United States has witnessed a disturbing surge in political violence, a trend that has alarmed citizens across the ideological spectrum. The assassination of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September 2025, along with other high-profile attacks on both Republican and Democratic figures, has cemented a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The essential recommendation of close reading and critical reflection concerning history is one of those kinds of advice which is regularly given but infrequently followed. Indeed, we are taught by mind-molding media, contemporary concepts of mindfulness, and the relentless force of current events to focus on the here and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. — Barack Hussein Obama “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When we say Black History Month is American history, we are not making a slogan. We are correcting a misunderstanding that has lived too long in the public imagination. Too many people still treat Black history as a side chapter, a cultural elective, or a commemorative sidebar to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) All things work together for the good! Romans 8: 28 Close to the 2026 midterms, tension spreads across the U.S., not only over outcomes but over doubts about election stability. Though Donald Trump serves his second year in office again, slipping support, financial stress, and public frustration grow stronger. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As 2026 unfolds, the landscape of international travel for Americans has shifted dramatically under the Trump Administration’s renewed focus on border security, immigration restrictions, and reciprocal travel bans. The administration’s policies, including expanded travel bans and visa restrictions, have not only affected inbound travel to the United States but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s children are growing up in a landscape shaped by persistent educational inequities, the trauma of gun violence, and the psychological toll of civil unrest. For Black and minority children, these forces converge in ways that threaten not only their safety and well-being but also their ability to thrive ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Does it sometimes seem as though too many people have never learned the lessons of the schoolyard? If you capitulate to a bully, you will be bullied forever. If you stand up to him, he will back down. What’s true on the playground is also true in the office, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like most Americans, I have had seemingly endless discussions in the wake of the murders of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti at the hands of ICE agents in Minneapolis. Yes, I understand that “murder” is a legal distinction that must be determined in a court. However, what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I read the commentary across social media, legacy media and the broader public discourse surrounding the latest deadly shooting in Minnesota, I see something deeper than disagreement over facts or law. I see a nation struggling to reconcile rights, authority, fear and accountability in moments when events move ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On behalf of the nearly 9 million people who are now in default on their student loans, a coalition of advocates from consumer, civil rights and education organizations are appealing to the federal Education Department to halt its plans to begin garnishing borrower wages this month. Default status connotes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip hop has always been political whether it wanted to be or not. From its earliest days in the Bronx, the culture spoke truth to power, chronicled poverty, resisted authority, and gave voice to communities ignored by mainstream America. Even when the music leaned toward escapism, the backdrop was ...