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Recounting one of the most important moments in sports history.

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Philadelphia Eagles have a notable history of Black quarterbacks for their franchise. A generation before Jalen Hurts won a Super Bowl as the starting QB, Donovan McNabb was the face of the franchise during the 2000s, and the Eagles have even had two of the most unique QB talents in both Randall Cunningham and Michael Vick. This summer, the city of Philadelphia hosted another former NFL Black quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, who never played for the Eagles but has […]

August 21, 2026 2

Gospel

Byron Donalds Could Become Florida’s First Black Governor Without Running on Race.

(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a moment on election night when the winner steps to the microphone and tells you, without saying it plainly, how he wants to be understood. Byron Donalds had his moment this week. He stood on that Orlando stage with his wife and three sons behind him, and he never once mentioned that a candidate built like him had never sat in the governor’s mansion up in Tallahassee. Reporters noticed. He noticed them noticing. “Florida is a great […]

August 20, 2026 5

Gospel

Spreading Risk Does Not Mean Avoiding Risk.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Risk Is the Price of Staying in the Game A lot of people hear the phrase “spread your risk” and picture a strategy built around caution, retreat, or playing defense. But that is not really what diversification does. It does not remove uncertainty from life, investing, or even everyday money decisions. What it does is make uncertainty survivable. That distinction matters, because the goal is not to avoid every possible setback. The goal is to keep one bad outcome […]

August 20, 2026 5

Gospel

Gary, Indiana’s Power Outage Is a Warning for Black Communities Across America.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Come the eleventh of August, Gary lost power, and for thousands of households the lights still had not flickered back on more than a week down the line. A derecho came barreling through Northwest Indiana that night. Winds got up near 100 miles an hour, and they snapped utility poles and dumped century old trees onto people’s roofs. Seven people died across Indiana as the storms and flooding unfolded. More than 301,000 NIPSCO customers went dark, better than 60% […]

August 20, 2026 6

Gospel

Black People Are Making Martha’s Vineyard a Bigger Homecoming.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Say the words Martha’s Vineyard to somebody who came up when I did, and watch what their mind conjures. Old money. Doctors and lawyers with summer homes handed down like heirlooms. The Obamas strolling near the water. For decades that picture held, and there was truth in it. Oak Bluffs earned its reputation as a refuge for the accomplished and the well connected, a stretch of shore where our most celebrated names could rest without being watched. My own […]

August 20, 2026 4

Gospel

ICE Social Media Surveillance Threatens First Amendment Rights.

(ThyBlackMan.com) When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone. The government is not entitled to rummage through the political opinions, associations, criticisms and angry rhetoric of anyone merely because a government official finds those opinions offensive, threatening to an agency’s reputation or inconvenient to its mission. Recently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

August 20, 2026 10

Gospel

Ro Khanna’s California Wealth Tax Plan Could Punish the Entrepreneurs Who Build Companies.

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s an old saying: Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. A similar idea underscores the debate over wealth taxes in California and elsewhere: Those who can, build companies. Those who can’t, devise ways for the government to take shares in what others have built. This new version might sound unfair until you listen to Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif.) pitch for an allegedly onetime, 5% wealth tax on California billionaires, tied to November’s vote on Proposition 40. Space […]

August 20, 2026 7

Gospel

Black Voters and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: What Does She Really Offer for 2028?

(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me say this plain, the way my uncle used to put it on the porch when somebody came around asking for something. You do not hand over your vote because a person smiles nice and hates the same folks you hate. Make them show you what is in the bag first. That goes for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the same as it goes for anybody else circling the 2028 nomination. Right now she is one of the early frontrunners. As […]

August 18, 2026 6

Gospel

Reginald Foreman’s Murder and Black Violence in South Los Angeles.

(ThyBlackMan.com) You can’t find one negative word written and spoken about Reginald Foreman. Yet on August 6 he was shot dead in the Hyde Park area of South Los Angeles. Foreman was a community activist, violence prevention counselor, and a well-known and respected presence in South Los Angeles. His murder came close on the heels of a spate of murders in Compton. And in the days in between several other murders were reported in South L.A. They all have one […]

August 18, 2026 6

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Recounting one of the most important moments in sports history.

Byron Donalds Could Become Florida’s First Black Governor Without Running on Race.

Spreading Risk Does Not Mean Avoiding Risk.

Gary, Indiana’s Power Outage Is a Warning for Black Communities Across America.

Black People Are Making Martha’s Vineyard a Bigger Homecoming.

ICE Social Media Surveillance Threatens First Amendment Rights.

Ro Khanna’s California Wealth Tax Plan Could Punish the Entrepreneurs Who Build Companies.

Black Voters and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: What Does She Really Offer for 2028?

Reginald Foreman’s Murder and Black Violence in South Los Angeles.

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