(ThyBlackMan.com) For the last few years, I have been sounding the alarm that the Democratic Party neither understands nor values Black men. Party leaders just don’t “get” Black men socio-culturally; they cannot seem to grasp that we are a distinct group within the Democratic coalition and that we have distinct ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Realignment and transformation throughout our nation’s political landscape is not new. Our country will always be divided over who gets the political upper hand and the fight to keep it. With today’s polarization approaching Civil War levels, the division is no longer regional (North vs. South). It is more political ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you turn on the news or take a ride in your car and listen to the radio, do you ever pause to think, “Where’s all of the good news?” It seems nearly impossible today to find any good stories that lift the spirit, stories that remind you there ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Cicley Gay and the Board of Black Lives Matter Global Network are rightfully being put on the spot, when it comes to the issue of the Biden-Harris administration policy of undercounting the unemployment rates of American workers, throwing them under the bus, especially Black Americans. There is nothing more devastating economically ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a wide-spread shared conception that our future is under surveillance and siege, that our present is problematized by big tech, artificial intelligence, and continuing cultural wars. These toxic and toll-taking processes strive to rewrite and erase our history and offer us a false freedom instead of liberation; ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The visit by Vice President Kamala Harris to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in St. Paul, the first ever visit by a president or vice president to an abortion clinic, is getting the considerable attention it deserves. When America’s vice president visits and pays homage to the nation’s largest ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During this Women’s History Month, the Honorable Marcia Louise Fudge announced that she will be only the second of President Biden’s original cabinet members to resign from her position. Her last day of work is March 22. Marcia Fudge has spent decades in public service as mayor of her ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For years, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and other tribes of the Great Lakes region have been leading a true David vs. Goliath fight against the Canadian oil giant Enbridge Energy. Enbridge’s 71-year-old Line 5 oil and gas pipeline, which trespasses through sovereign tribal lands, is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Duty, Honor, Country…mere words to some” Duty – A moral or legal obligation, a responsibility. A task or action that someone is required to perform. Honor – High respect, great esteem. An adherence to what is right or to a convention standard of conduct. Country – A Nation with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The National Urban League has just released the 2024 edition of its signature publication The State of Black America, and this year the report centered on examining the 60th anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. As the NUL says, “For Black America, the Civil Rights Act ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) L.A. has yet another tragedy and dubious distinction. It has more unclaimed dead than any other county, maybe even most countries, in the nation. Each year an annual burial rite for the unclaimed dead draws hundreds of people to a cemetery in Boyle Heights where the unclaimed dead are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The New York City legislature, following in the footsteps of Washington, D.C., passed a ground-breaking bill into law in 2022. The law would have allowed any lawful permanent resident or green card holder to vote in a New York City election. This law was swiftly met with legal challenges ...