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(ThyBlackMan.com) When news broke that Rob Base had passed away after a private cancer battle, a whole era of Hip Hop memories came rushing back. Before social media. Before streaming numbers. Before rap became so polished and corporate. Back then, records had to move people physically. A DJ dropped the needle, the room exploded, and if the crowd kept dancing, the song became immortal. Rob Base understood that formula better […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Several years ago, while I was speaking with one of my mentors, I showed him a church photo that was very disturbing to me. In the center of the picture was a person, whom I assumed to be the pastor, standing at the pulpit and shaking hands with another man. As members of the congregation sat and watched, Klansmen dressed in their typical hoods and robes sat in separate […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The month of May is the month of Haji Malcolm X and also the month of African Liberation Day (ALD), and it brings with it instructive histories and ever renewed commitments of continued and victorious struggle. Indeed, both the Black liberation struggle in the US and Haji Malcolm’s central role in it and the liberation struggles on the African continent offer us a rich and ongoing resource for reflective […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump is now an unpopular president. Some of this dissatisfaction is due to the war in Iran. Some of it springs from the unanticipated speed, chaos and perceived brutality of several of his administration’s actions over the past year and a half. But a significant part of his political problem has a straightforward economic explanation: Everything feels expensive, and his tariffs are a major reason why. If the […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved. She lived to one hundred and five. She carried the weight of what her family had been to my family, and what her family had been to itself, the way you carry a stone you cannot put down. When she died, the stone passed to me. I went looking. What I found […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to give away tax dollars without congressional or judicial authorization to his friends and allies whom he believes were mistreated by the Biden administration. Can he legally do that? Here is the backstory. During the last year of his first term in office, Trump’s tax returns were stolen along with those of 425,000 others by an IRS employee who leaked […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Three days after President Donald Trump was elected to his second term, then-President Joe Biden’s Justice Department published a press release that included a statement by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland — and cited murderous acts Iran was allegedly planning to perpetrate inside the United States. “There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran,” […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Folks have argued over that question for years. You hear it inside classrooms, barber shops, college dorms, family cookouts, and old church parking lots after Sunday service. Who is the most famous Black poet? Everybody got an opinion. Some lean toward Maya Angelou because her words reached millions across race, age, and gender. Others mention Nikki Giovanni or James Baldwin since their writing still feels alive whenever somebody opens […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Satan is a liar, always has been, always will be; and you need to remember that. He excels in wrapping his lies in layers of truth, so that the unwary will swallow the pill without evaluating the consequences. Satan invented craftiness, deceit and subtlety are his main weapons, and even when he comes as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8), the roar is camouflaged […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Before anyone moves abroad, there’s usually a moment that gets skipped over in the excitement: the moment where you stop picturing the new country and actually look at your current life and ask, “Okay… what am I really doing here?” It sounds simple, but most people don’t do it. They focus on visas, on cities, on job opportunities, on Instagram inspiration boards, all of that. But the part that […]