(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not Catholic, but the pope’s death hit hard, compared to a living president. Pope Francis, a champion for peace and the poor who crossed borders in his inclusion, showed how it’s done, winning hearts all over the world. Donald Trump showed up at the Vatican funeral wearing a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is the secretary of defense sharing battle plans with his third wife, a former Fox News producer, on Signal. His top aides have all quit or been fired. The department is leaking like a sieve about its leader. Disarray, they say. He was stunningly unqualified for the job in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is only right, good and reflective of the high homage we owe and offer her, that in this Black History Month II – Women Focus, we raise and praise the name, work and achievement of Nana Dr. Betty Shabazz. Moreover, this coming May will mark not only the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett fearlessly called it as she saw it, suggesting that if the President Trump is looking for rapists and criminals, he should “look in the mirror.” Her bold statement stands out as a sharp critique, one that few, including myself, had articulated so directly before. Crockett’s words ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In November 2024, 77,284,118 people voted for Donald J. Trump to be the leader of the US government. Some voted for him to bring down prices. Others voted for him to radically shake things up in the American social and political body. If it meant breaking things up or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) James Brown had a way of reminding us to take pride in our Blackness. We can use some of that today. As an international music icon, James Brown emerged as one of the founding fathers of funk with a musical style that often profoundly influenced R&B, jazz, and rock. Becoming ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) History may not perfectly repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Two protectionist episodes — the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 and the Trump-era tariffs of today — offer a striking example. Both emerged from economic nostalgia and fear of change. Both were politically attractive. And both were costly, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It feels strange talking about the world’s richest man, only 53 years old, in the past tense. But that somehow seems appropriate for Elon Musk, who weeks ago was considered Donald Trump’s co-president. Now he’s clearly falling off that high perch, just as Tesla, his star asset, reports net ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump ran on a platform of peace, economic revitalization, prosperity, secure borders, domestic tranquility and order. He won in a landslide because people were thirsty for a so-called “America First” common-sense program. However, in three months Trump has only delivered on the border security issue while his domestic, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The world will miss Pope Francis. In fact, it already does. After having already battled pneumonia, the pontiff passed away on April 21st due to complications from a stroke. Francis was the first pope from Latin America – and the first from outside Europe in roughly thirteen hundred years. He ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Michael McDonald, one of my hometown buddies from St. Louis and of the Doobie Brothers fame once said in a song: “What a fool believes he sees, no wiseman has the power to reason away; ‘cause what seems to be is always better than nothing at all.” What a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have previously written about the dangerous consequences of America intentionally sabotaging its “soft power.” Doing so has occasioned an opportunity for Russia and China to assume more prominent roles in the mediation, adjudication, and manipulation of global affairs. These two nations are not merely our political and economic ...