Gospel

(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. […]

(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 […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) When Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s media mouthpiece, announced that it would be selling advance access to Trump’s posts, I thought they were kidding. I mean, have they no shame? When the announcement met with a round of criticism and Democratic demands that the SEC investigate, I figured they’d back off. Why do I keep underestimating the greediness of Trump Inc.? How many times will they have to prove […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The measure of a person should never shrink down to their hardest chapters, yet that is exactly the trap the coming days will lay for a woman who spent nearly her entire life performing for the rest of us. By the time you read this, the coverage will have already picked its frame. Word came Sunday that Panettiere had passed at 36, found unresponsive at a residence in South […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Whenever cinephiles argue over the strongest bond between a filmmaker and his favorite leading man, the talk drifts fast toward Scorsese and De Niro, yet any honest reckoning has to save a chair at the table for two brothers who spent thirty five years sharpening each other into something rare. I caught Mo’ Better Blues in a nearly empty auditorium back in 1990, still in my twenties, with no […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Michael Jordan is arguably one of the best professional basketball players in NBA history. Among his many accomplishments during his illustrious career, Jordan was Rookie of the Year, five-time NBA MVP, six-time NBA champion, six-time NBA Finals MVP, and an NBA Hall of Fame inductee. Jordan’s final game as a player was on April 16, 2003, where he finished with 15 points in a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Turn on the debate shows long enough and you start to notice who gets handed the microphone when a Black athlete steps out of line. Not the loud one. Not the guy who might scare the room. Producers want somebody who looks the part, talks the culture, and still lets a nervous crowd exhale. Robert Griffin III has quietly become that guy. Understand me before you get heated. This […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Adrien Broner once carried the kind of promise the fight game rarely hands out. For a while, people talked about him like the next Floyd Mayweather. World titles across four weight classes, mouth running faster than his hands, a swagger that made you either love him or want to see him humbled. That was a while back now. The kid from Cincinnati is a grown man, and although he […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Summer of 2024, on a debate stage down in Atlanta, the man stood up and told the whole country that folks coming across the southern border were snatching up what he called “Black jobs.” A few weeks later he walked into a room full of Black journalists in Chicago and somebody asked him, plainly, what a Black job even is. His answer was that a Black job is anybody […]