(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Haiti has been struggling to exist since 1804, but historians say it had never reached such a low point during the past two centuries; and worse, the impoverished Caribbean country faces now a situation of general despair, disabling it to see the light at the end of the tunnel and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I think it went too far. These were the exact words President Biden spoke in an interview about the supremely wrong Roe decision that commercialized the killing of America’s Posterity. “I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion,” Senator Biden explained. “I think it went too far. I don’t think ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here were the facts about crime in Los Angeles in 2023. The number of homicides plunged. The number of violent crimes plunged. The number of victims shot plunged. The number of property crimes dropped. The number of hate crimes plunged. According to a report by the LAPD on crime ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here is an excerpt of a statement from Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) in regard to their mission as a result of a recent lawsuit brought by Melinda Abdullah: “The problems we face as a community are too great for us to be divided. The only way ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Remember the parable of the blind men and the elephant? As each approached an elephant and tried to describe it, they came up with wildly disparate answers. One thought it a snake, another a tree, another a trunk. Because they were blind, they could not see the big picture; ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No, I am not some “Debbie Downer,” nor do I bet against America. However, last week’s State of the Union address was political cherry-picking for 77 minutes of carefully chosen bloviating. There are so many polls now showing that the American people do not believe the state of our ...