(ThyBlackMan.com) The song “Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones opens with the line, “A woman on the radio talks about revolution, when it’s already passed her by.” There are some people who peaked in high school and never got over it – never changing their hair or general style ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Following last week’s primary elections, in which the rise of Democratic-Socialist candidates alarmed many longtime Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) read a list of what he said those far-left candidates stand for. To conservatives and Independents, the list sounded like a grand jury indictment. Johnson said the Democratic-Socialist ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Tenants’ groups and leftwing activists are cheering New York City’s newly announced multiyear rent freeze. But Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rent scheme is headed for a judicial smackdown at the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2023 and twice in 2024, a hesitant Supreme Court declined to hear challenges by building owners ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Haiti is not an abstraction. Haiti is a nation whose pain has too often been treated as policy collateral, a people whose labor is welcomed when needed and whose lives are discounted when convenient. Now, with the Supreme Court clearing the way for the Trump administration to terminate Temporary ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” reads the iconic welcome to the world’s oppressed inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. Emma Lazarus, the poet who penned those words, had herself helped Jewish refugees from the anti-Semitic pogroms of Eastern Europe who had ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “The majority claims to see no evidence that race played any role in the Haiti decision. But the evidence is there, plain to see, in the President’s statements, which the majority (and for that matter, his own lawyers) cannot even bear to repeat.”  The President’s allies on the Supreme ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Every generation hopes to leave the world a little better than it found it. Across African-American communities, this goal has often involved creating opportunities, strengthening neighborhoods, and building environments where future generations can thrive. While discussions about safety frequently focus on crime statistics or physical security, creating safer environments ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Yes, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist picks just knocked off some Democratic incumbents in New York City. They included surprising defeats, especially that of Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Espaillat lost to Darializa Avila Chevalier, whose social media swims with past calls to abolish the police, ...