(ThyBlackMan.com) Believing they have a good campaign issue for 2026, Trump and Republican Congressional candidates will go into overdrive talking about violence and crime, in particular, if not exclusively, violence and crime in urban centers. So, let’s talk about violence and crime. An eight-year-old and ten-year while sitting in a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For years I have been among a large segment of Americans who criticize people who “vote against their own interests.” The people to whom we refer exist at or near the bottom of the socioeconomic scale. They typically have low wages and little or no accumulated wealth. They include ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a member of the National Association of Black Journalist (NABJ); this writer is familiar with how “smiling faces” are selling harmful narratives, cosigning systemic oppression, and undermining Black unity for political gain. We think of betrayals as coming from outside—the policies, the systems, the long list of things ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When President Donald Trump announced in August that the federal government took an equity stake in Intel, he bragged that taxpayers had “paid zero” for part of a company now “worth $11 billion.” In reality, taxpayers paid plenty: $8.9 billion in subsidies with potentially more to come. The government ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It started quietly enough. MAGA Republicans put lunatic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services. He’s forced top scientists to leave and slashed research in cancer, autoimmune diseases and other health threats. Thanks to him, getting the updated COVID vaccine is harder ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, he won by only 1.5 percentage points overall while receiving 312 Electoral College votes. Among Hispanic voters, Trump won 48 percent of the vote, after losing to Joe Biden by a margin of 61 percent to 36 percent in the 2020 presidential election. In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I really didn’t want to write this article for fear someone would think I was referring to myself. I’ve been through the mill, but I’m talking about Black women in high places still catching hell. My work is all-volunteer these days, so what happens to me can go to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today is Labor Day, a day set aside to remember and honor workers and organized labor and their struggles to gain respect, decent wages, safe working conditions, benefits, the right to bargain collectively and a place at the workplace decision making table. The irony is on this day there is an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Russell Vought is the ultimate Trumper. The head of the Office of Management and Budget just anointed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to wind down the U.S. Agency for International Development (“wind down” being one of his favorite words) had a new stunt to try out this week ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The French philosopher Albert Camus reportedly said, “Without work all life is rotten but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Now, historians are suggesting he may have not uttered or written those exact words but been paraphrased by one of his biographers. No matter. The sentiment is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Concerns about the Federal Reserve’s independence have grown following repeated attacks by President Donald Trump, including this week’s decision to fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook based on questionable allegations. But this debate is too narrowly focused on the president’s political pressure, ignoring a growing danger in our system. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) These are dark days for American lovers of liberty, so any glimmers of light are especially welcome. Let’s start with “Sandwich Man.” The world knows him as the pink-shirted guy who shouted at federal agents patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. After some aggressive language and pungent invitations to ...