Black Gospel Radio

(ThyBlackMan.com) As I think lovingly and appreciatively of my mother on this coming Mother’s Day and reflect on this past May Day, I remember that it was my mother and father who taught me the dignity and duty of work and worker, and the role of work and workers in serving our community and humanity, and in making and remaking the world. And they taught me also the equally important […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) A lot of younger brothers are carrying pressure quietly and thinking their value as a man only comes from what is sitting in their bank account. I understand why some think like that. Most of us grew up hearing the same message over and over. A man provides. A man handles business. A man keeps everything together no matter how tired he feels inside. Somewhere along the line, many […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) President Trump has rightly earned his place as the most consequential pro-life president in modern American history. From his transformative judicial appointments, including three Supreme Court justices who made the overturning of Roe v. Wade possible, to his reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy and his defunding of abortion providers through Title X, he has backed his convictions with action at every turn. He signed those directives on the same day he addressed the […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Viewing current events, it appears the ruling elites, the people who really run this country and world, are doing everything in their power to sink the American Empire and reduce it to the hung heap of history. Why do you say this you ask? Because everywhere we look we see chaos, confusion, consternation, distraction, deceit and mind-numbing mis and malfeasance have become the norm. The government and media lie, they […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Some days a man can sit alone in complete silence and still feel pressure all around him. Bills waiting. Work draining him. Children needing his attention. Expectations coming from every direction. Then somewhere during those long nights, thoughts start creeping into his head that he never says out loud. Maybe I am falling short. Maybe I am too tired for all this. Maybe everybody would be better off if […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sober people prefer to hear the truth, even if some truths make them uncomfortable, because they know, as serious people, they can handle whatever the truth implies. Maturity should be the state in which reality can be faced, flinching or unflinchingly, and be accommodated without undue alarm. It is to be hoped that the reader of this article is sober, and serious, and mature, and willing to face existential […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Ona Judge escaped George Washington once. Now the federal government is trying to make her disappear again. I teach in Philadelphia, a short walk from the site of the President’s House. George and Martha Washington lived there when the city was the nation’s capital. Nine enslaved people lived there too. My own family fought in the American Revolution. We descend from the youngest boy to carry a musket at […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Breaking generational patterns as a Black father does not start with some big speech. It starts when you finally sit still long enough to look at yourself for real. Not what you show people, but what is actually there. I had to do that. Had to look back at how I was raised, what I picked up, what I never got, and how all of that stayed with me […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) When the U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1787, the words, “We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union,” were written as the opening of the Constitution’s statement of purpose. The “We the People” reference is a statement of inclusion that sounds inspiring on paper, but it was not an accurate description of the level of equality and humanity practiced throughout society at […]