Gospel

(ThyBlackMan.com) I just came out of my home studio. I wrote a song called Laura Loomer Please Stop, for really complex reasons that had a lot to do with my life as a father to a daughter, Kathryn Cherise. She is a brilliant young woman and she has recently earned her PhD from the University of Maryland. I told her often that she should reach for the sky and she […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Reading often works like a compass that points toward sharper thinking and steadier confidence. Z-library supports this path by giving steady access to books across genres and fields. A reader can move from topic to topic with ease and build a structured routine that feels natural rather than forced. This steady rhythm inspires curiosity and sparks new ideas day after day. For many readers the shift toward deeper study […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) New York City’s troubling decline in reading scores, despite one of the most ambitious literacy reform efforts in the nation, is a wakeup call for the entire nation. Across the country, reading achievement continues to decline. Nearly 40 percent of fourth graders read below the basic level and roughly a third of eighth graders are reading below basic, the highest share ever recorded. Taken together, these numbers reveal a national literacy […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The current regime in Washington will go down as the most insensitive, corrupt, inhumane and vindictive in the history of the nation. Some would also add most chaotic also to that list. Understandable, but wrong. What many have viewed as chaos may in fact be a well-orchestrated strategy to confuse, frustrate, deceive and exhaust the American people and the media into submission. There may be an element of method […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) As a little girl, I remember my mother taking her children’s hands, going into places, and being told, “You can come in, but they can’t.” My Mom held onto our hands and took us out of the place. I was born in Louisiana, but as a young person, I can remember a lot of situations I now know as racism. In many ways, Louisiana hasn’t changed. Louisiana has always been a place […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) So here is the mess that dropped this week, and I aim to give it to you plain. Journalist Rula Jebreal went on The Left Hook podcast with host Wajahat Ali and called Hakeem Jeffries an “AIPAC monkey.” Then she piled on with “errand boy.” Right after that came the line people keep quoting. “With all due respect, and I don’t mean it in a racist way.” The remarks […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) For all the talk about Black men and rivalry, about crabs in a barrel and one seat at the table, the most important film partnership of the past decade has spent its whole run quietly arguing the opposite case. I came up in a time when we were taught, quietly and not so quietly, that there was only room for one of us at the top. One seat, they […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution. The United States government today alleges that Mohammed was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, a crime of historic horror that demands accountability. For nine years, the government told us that the mastermind of the attacks was Osama bin Laden, […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Frankly, I always thought that sentiment was ridiculous in the first place. Anyone who went through middle school, junior high or high school knows full well the kind of nasty behavior that females are capable of. But there’s garden-variety “mean girl,” “queen bee” snark, and then there is the outrageous lunacy that we’ve witnessed of late. Early last month, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a law that allows abortion […]