(ThyBlackMan.com) Looking backward over 2023 and looking forward to 2024 recalls ancient wisdom. Ecclesiastes: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr employed different phraseology: “The more things change, the more they stay the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Statue of Liberty stands proudly in Upper New York Bay as a symbol of freedom and a welcoming beacon to the “huddled masses” and “those yearning to be free.” Originally conceived as an emblem of the friendship between the people of France and the United States, it is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us go through the useless ritual of making New Year’s resolutions and proclaiming “out with the old.” Maybe that works for your eating habits or exercise routine, but 2023 news will be with us into 2024. From my perspective, these are the things we’ll be paying attention to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is six years into Donald J. Trump’s second tenure as president. During his first tenure he served four years and with his current six years in office he is just three years short of matching President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s record of 13 years as president. After a tumultuous ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Colorado Supreme Court has done what almost half a dozen state supreme courts haven’t done yet: It issued a ruling declaring that former President Donald John Trump is disqualified to run for president in Colorado in 2024 because he incited and was involved in an insurrection, namely the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There were a lot of important economic stories over the past month. Inflation continued to drop. Unemployment stayed low. The Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady. The stock market rebounded. And consumers, who have never been better off, complained about the economy and took it out on Biden. But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) All that any of us have to do is take a look at the real history of this land to see the truth. America was founded on illegal immigration, invasion, colonization, extermination and slavery. That is the ugly truth which many people are hoping you will forget. Yet since ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The climate crisis is not coming; it is here now. We see it all around our communities on a daily basis. And we know it hits frontline and Black and Brown communities first and worst. It is impacting our economy and nearly every aspect of our daily lives. And ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Angela Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s County Executive, is an energetic, knowledgeable public servant. An attorney, mom, and activist, she led Maryland’s largest county through the pandemic, providing much-needed assistance for needy citizens. Prince George’s County (PGC) is a heavily Black area next to Washington, DC. It is also one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many Republicans, and Democrats that would love to run with the narrative that the Biden Administration has allowed the immigration issue to get out of control. There are many that would go as far as to stand on the position that the Biden Administration is not putting ...
Supreme Illusion: How the U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘Code of Conduct’ Facilitates Ethical Transgressions.
(ThyBlackMan.com) “There’s no clearer indication that these rules are useless than the fact that they end up codifying Thomas’s outrageous behavior as ethically within bounds.” — Elie Mystal The so-called Code of Conduct the U.S. Supreme Court won’t put a stop to corruption and wasn’t intended to do so. Quite ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America is a country with a good number of resources, and a diverse citizenship. Yet, the country is in a state that is not acceptable given that America is a superpower nation. The levels of homelessness, economic instability amongst citizens, education crisis, violent crimes, corruption, police brutality, lack of ...