(ThyBlackMan.com) Not so long ago, nearly everybody except 92 percent of Black women pretended they didn’t know what Project 25 was. They did that all the way up to Election Day while listening to what the “Would Be King” was clearly saying. Make no mistake, he told us over and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Forty-five years ago, President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation designating March 2-8, 1980, as National Women’s History Week. The final day of that period was International Women’s Day, which had already been celebrated in many countries for much of the 20th century and recognized by the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Chuck Schumer is right, and James Carville is right. They don’t want the Democratic Party getting pulled into MAGA’s cyclone of ruinous policy. To get to safety, they are reining in the left flank for whom the fight is all. The hotheads don’t recognize that bad timing loses battles. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For several decades, I have loved studying history. I was first smitten with the subject due in large measure to my late high school teacher, Mr. Terry Wright. Mr. Wright was entertaining, encouraging, and enlightening. He was instrumental in my decision to major in history in college. As I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As America grapples with shifting values and increasing chaos, we face an unsettling question: Could Black Americans find themselves pushed back to a time reminiscent of the 1870’s Post-Reconstruction era, where legally they had no rights whites had to respect? The threat is real, particularly under the grip of powerful ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Years ago, a contest was run for the most boring newspaper headline. The winner was “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative,” which appeared in the April 10, 1986, edition of The New York Times. “Worthwhile initiative” is a snooze-worthy phrase. Adding a reference to the quiet and restrained country to the north ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “You can’t really run a campaign where you’re like: I want to cut taxes for rich people and raise them on the poor. So instead, it’s all of this smoke-and-mirrors distraction about how foreigners are taking advantage of us … It’s a story that, if you don’t know any economics ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sixty years ago, on Sunday, March 7, 1965, John Lewis and the Rev. Hosea Williams set out on a nonviolent march with a group of 600 men, women, young people and children headed from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. They were seeking the right to vote ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk in December, has pleaded not guilty in connection with the killing. Like all defendants, Mangione enters the courtroom with the presumption of innocence. But if a jury finds him guilty of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I ask the 10 Democrats who voted to censure the Hon. Al Green—siding with the enemy instead of challenging the person speaking and taking nearly 2 hours to spew hatefulness and untruths. Rep. Green has served 11 honorable terms in Congress, and before that he was a great lawyer, judge ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I fight many battles. One that is very important to me is the struggle not to be pigeonholed due to my fitting into one “box” or another. I embrace many identities and generally have no problem with being associated with any of them. My problem is when description becomes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week pundits reminded us March 11th was the five-year anniversary of SARS-COV2 aka COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic. They regurgitated the official orthodoxy of COVID being a novel virus that posed an eminent danger to the world’s population and only Operation Warp Speed’s success in creating a “vaccine” ...