Black Gospel Radio

(ThyBlackMan.com) The most persistent weakness in our political tradition is no shortage of talent or courage, but a habit of waiting on one anointed figure to carry an entire race across the finish line. I have been voting since Carter, and I have watched this cycle spin around more times than I care to admit. Somebody rises. Cameras find him. He can preach, he can quote scripture and Baldwin in […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) In righteously remembering and retrieving the enduring legacy of Nana Ida B. Wells- Barnett, we practice the morality of remembrance, honoring a womanist warrior who troubled and transformed the life-shaping waters of the world. She was an awesome ancestor, one of those whose name we will always honor, whose praise poems we will always write and recite, and whose life is a book of lessons we will always read […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The New York City Public School system is 62% Black and Hispanic. At its eight most prestigious competitive high schools, 80% of the students are Asian or White. Wait — what’s considered the most selective of the city’s schools, Stuyvesant High, 777 students were offered slots. Of those, how many (or should I say how few) went to Blacks? Take a guess. It’s 2026, with equality for all. Three. […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) As an economist, I have spent much of my life thinking about what money does. It measures value. It facilitates exchange. It stores wealth. But money also tells a story. Every portrait placed on a bill announces whom this nation has chosen to honor—and whose history it expects us to carry in our pockets. Ten years ago, the Treasury Department announced that Harriet Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Americans will soon choose a set of senators who will take office in January 2027 and serve through early 2033. In the final months of that term, Social Security’s retirement trust fund is expected to run dry and trigger benefits cuts of 22% — not just for the wealthy, not just for new retirees, but for everyone up to and including widows living on survivors’ checks. Somehow, this has […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami — can the president sue an entity in the executive branch of the federal government and benefit from the resolution of that lawsuit? — seems to beg the question. How could anyone sue an entity he controls and derive a benefit from the amicable resolution of such a lawsuit at the expense of others who are not parties to […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) In more than a few years of watching how power actually moves in this country, I have seen ambitious men mistake a full bank account for real influence, and the rapper Boosie Badazz has now paid dearly to learn the difference. The Baton Rouge rapper, whose legal name is Torrence Hatch, handed over six hundred thousand dollars to a couple of Washington operators who swore up and down they […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Women who make charges of rape should not be believed.  They should be given an opportunity to present their facts to law enforcement and if warranted, be able to have the evidence judged by a jury of their peers. Women lie.  Let me repeat, women lie like every other human.  You do not believe me? Ask the Duke LaCrosse players from 2006. Crystal Mangum, a former stripper and convicted […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Roc Nation is billing the weekend as history, and for once the label talk holds up. Across three nights in the Bronx this month, Shawn Carter became the first artist to sell out Yankee Stadium three shows running, each with its own setlist and its own staging. More than 1.6 million people entered the ticket queues for the original two shows back in March, all clawing for a seat. […]