(ThyBlackMan.com) History was made when… “Twenty and odd” Africans landed in Virginia in August of 1619; Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat in December of 1955; France awarded the Croix de Guerre, its highest military honor, to the entire 369th Infantry Regiment, known as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently traveled to give a speech. I stayed in a hotel where a group of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents were also staying. I spoke to several, mostly men, but a couple were female. The average person I spoke to had been with the agency for over ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This year, we commemorate Black History Month under the shadow of continued efforts to whitewash or eliminate lessons about race and systemic racism in classrooms across the United States. These efforts to spoon-feed children sugarcoated versions of our history leave them ill-equipped to be citizens weighing in on the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In this month of invited meditation, making resolutions and deep reflection about ourselves and the state of things in the world, I turn to the teachings of our honored ancestors, founded especially in our sacred texts, the Husia and the Odu Ifa. And I always find in them a rich, ever-ready and invaluable ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) James Hiatt lives in an area along the Mississippi River in Louisiana that has been dubbed “Cancer Alley.” Teeming with chemical plants and oil and gas refineries, the air the residents of this area breathe contains more carcinogens than anywhere else in the country. One of those oil and gas ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2008, I was standing with a few others behind a Cadillac hearse on the usually noisy tarmac at March Air Reserve Base in California’s Riverside County. Except for the flap of the American flag above the hearse’s headlight, a solemn silence cocooned the airfield as we waited for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It didn’t take long for Pope Francis to get under Donald Trump’s skin. During his flight back to Rome after a visit to Mexico, the pope said during an interview: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not bridges, is not Christian.” Trump, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was born and raised in Georgia. I attended the University of Tennessee — the Volunteers — and now reside in Texas, where I finished my military career. I can tell you that there is a ruggedness in the Lone Star State that can be traced back to names ...
Exposing the Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Left’s Strategic Assault on Supreme Court Independence.
(ThyBlackMan.com) For years, the Left has been determined to undermine the integrity of the Supreme Court and attack justices committed to upholding the Constitution. Recall the court packing efforts by Democrats only a few years ago. We should have known then that left-wing efforts to exert political control over the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Deshawn J. Snelson was angered, perplexed, but determined. He was angered that a mob had rammed a stolen government car into the front of his Hype Kingdom apparel store in Bellflower. He was perplexed as to why dozens of people would choose his business for the mob robbery. But he was determined ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Republican Party has lost its soul because Donald Trump has it in a vice grip. Many of them are willing to vote for a man who has 91 felony charges, a man who in a civil suit was found guilty of ####, a man who made fun of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s business elites have used immigration as a tool to avoid hiring Black Americans for the past two centuries. This pattern of discrimination has depressed African Americans’ employment and wages — and is a significant cause of persistent racial wealth gaps. The trend began even before the Civil War. ...