(ThyBlackMan.com) My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved. She lived to one hundred and five. She carried the weight of what her family had been to my family, and what her family had been to itself, the way you carry ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most frustrating aspects of contemporary conversations about politics and public policy is how often the deleterious effects of terrible programs — local, state and federal — are brushed aside with distracting (and even deceitful) claims that the intentions behind the policies were “compassionate.” This is an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to give away tax dollars without congressional or judicial authorization to his friends and allies whom he believes were mistreated by the Biden administration. Can he legally do that? Here is the backstory. During the last year of his first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Three days after President Donald Trump was elected to his second term, then-President Joe Biden’s Justice Department published a press release that included a statement by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland — and cited murderous acts Iran was allegedly planning to perpetrate inside the United States. “There are few actors ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Life in New Orleans has always taught us how to read between the lines… how to feel the truth of a thing even when the people in power try to dress it up in legal language and political polish. And right now, what’s happening in Louisiana politics has that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At a news conference within hours after the shooting rampage at the San Diego Mosque the San Diego Police Chief said the obvious.,” the shooting would be investigated as a hate crime until it’s not.” His add on “it’s not” gave with one hand and took back with the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When he ran to become president, the current occupant in the Oval Office stated, “We’re going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please, it’s too much winning.” I don’t know about you, but I can truly say I need a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After the 1990 U.S. Census, radical liberal Blacks from the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Congressional Black Caucus, et.al were approached by Lee Atwater, then Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) about working together on congressional redistricting. They were about to be screwed with no Vaseline ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “What Alito doesn’t mention is that since 2013, the racial turnout gap around the nation has exploded. It beggars belief that Alito was unaware of this fact. He reached back nearly 20 years to include the only two elections in American history in which Black and white turnout reached ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the run-up to the June 2 L.A. mayoral race primary, I once more asked myself how did a white Republican, but worse still, a guy with unabashed MAGA credentials ever get into any serious conversation about being L.A.’s next mayor? If that’s not enough, his main claim to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Seventy-one years ago, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. For generations of Black families, Brown represented more than a legal decision. It represented aspiration, validation, and possibility. It affirmed a simple but transformative principle: Black children ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What we are seeing in America today is something that Black people haven’t experienced in a very long time—citizenship with no workable Voting Rights Act in place. Immediately after the Supreme Court’s recent Louisiana v. Callais ruling, five southern states wasted little time in redrawing new congressional voting maps ...