Gospel

(ThyBlackMan.com) Each of us differs in terms of our aspirations in life. I find it difficult understanding how some people are so passionate about things that I find utterly boring. I am sure there are many who feel the same way about the things I love in life. The truth is that God has placed different dreams and desires inside each of us, and that’s what makes us tick. I […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Every day highly paid script/copy readers, shills, propagandists and sycophants purport to tell us the “news” however, what they are really doing is gaslighting and lying to us. Sure, some of the events they “report” are factual especially the local occurrences: fires, accidents, community events etc. but overall, the news is intentionally designed and presented from the perspective of the owner and managerial classes who need to keep us […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Horrors. The profiteers running this year’s World Cup are forcing fans to shell out thousands for a single ticket. But they’re not. FIFA, which oversees the once-every-four-years soccer tournament, is slapping astounding prices on the tickets. No one has to buy them. This should be very obvious. That said, some products are priced in ways that understandably bring out villagers with pitchforks. Bread in 18th-century Europe, for example. Rapidly […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date. The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Originally, the feds had labeled Osama bin Laden as the ringleader. Yet, rather than charging and arresting […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Billionaire progressive activist and California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer recently remarked: “Health care companies only care about one thing: profits. Single-payer now.” This is the same Tom Steyer who opposed single-payer when he ran for president in 2020. “Bernie Sanders was right,” he says. “Boy, was I wrong.” He still cannot explain how to pay for it. Can anyone? Single-payer health care has been the progressive left’s signature domestic […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The new Michael film has done more than sell tickets. It has opened up a fresh conversation between generations. Older folks who remember the moonwalk when it first shook living rooms are now sitting beside young people who only knew clips, memes, and short videos. That kind of passing down matters because everybody seems to have a first Michael Jackson memory. What record got you hip to MJ? Was […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that every week, there is a news story or event that leaves us even more tired and weary of the political climate we live in. At a time when we should be paying increased attention to evolving events, we also face the personal need for emotional and mental breaks from the chaos. Taking that mental off-ramp to recharge and receive the temporary relief we need is critical. Sports […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Peabo Bryson was one of those singers you did not have to explain too much to a certain generation. Just say his name around folks who came up on real R&B, and somebody in the room is going to nod before you even finish the sentence. That is how strong his voice was. That is how deep his music sat with people. He was not just another man with […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) This Juneteenth I will stand at the Hermitage and help celebrate Black music. The Hermitage was Andrew Jackson’s plantation, outside Nashville. I want to be honest about how strange that is. I am descended from slaves and from the men who owned and abused them. The men who denied them their God-given right to freedom. My family was enslaved by the Blands of Virginia. Richard Bland was the famous […]