(ThyBlackMan.com) Faith leaders in the Black community are encouraging members of their congregations to sign-up for healthcare coverage during the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment period that ends on December 15. Reverend Edwin Sanders, the senior pastor and founder of the Metropolitan Interdenominational Church in Nashville, Tenn., said that supporting positive ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If it’s true that President Obama’s economy was anemic because he “inherited the worst recession since World War II” from former President George W Bush, the so-called “Great Recession,” how do you explain the fact that Trump has presided over three consecutive quarters of economic growth of 3 percent or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congressman John Conyers was the first politician to leave his job after the “Me Too” hash tag galvanized women to speak up about sexual misconduct, harassment and more. Too bad that impetus did not float up to the top, when an avowed grabber of women’s genitals was elected to lead ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The only Black daily newscast on television is no more. TV One is canceling Roland Martin’s morning show “NewsOne Now” due to budget cuts. “They called a meeting on Wednesday and told the staff they were canceling the show. They’re having significant financial problems and they have to scale back,” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Don’t Blame Black Voters for a Roy Moore Win… There are two great dangers in the Alabama Senate race. The first is obvious. An alleged pedophile, pro-slavery sentiment voicing, anti-Constitutional protections, voting rights, and avowed anti-gay rights baiter, will win the race. Polls with an occasional swing here and there ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (“Excerpts from the book titled, “The Fix This Time”). Tucked into this current tax bill Republicans are working hard to get passed Congress is a reduction in our Social Security income. The reduction has to do with how much of a boost in income retirees will receive as inflation rises. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Texas is, on the whole, a very welcoming and friendly state. It is the home of the renowned Southern hospitality, of which its residents are extremely proud. However, while Texas is an undeniably charming and vibrant place it also, as with most places, has a dark side to its history. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s time to get real. Donald J. Trump is not an aberration of most White males in the United States of America. In fact, he is exactly what most of them are all about. That’s why he’s president of the country today. And contrary to what is often stated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.” Thomas Jefferson said that about slavery, but he might well have been talking about what is now happening in Donald Trump’s Washington. Republicans are putting the finishing touches on a tax bill ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda… Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to write and admit: Donald Trump is winning. In the brief space of a week, he won a brief court fight to shove Mick Mulvaney to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Mulvaney wasted no time in unhinging a spate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1995, The United States Congress passed (by a vote of 374-37 in the U.S. House of Representatives, and 93-5 in the U.S. Senate) the bill entitled the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. Its stated purpose was “to provide for the relocation of the United States Embassy to Jerusalem. …” ...