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( ThyBlackMan.com) It’s love at first sight. That’s true for the couple in this romantic period film and for audiences who will be transfixed by the stunningly beautiful footage. It’s the summer of ’57. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), a twentysomething, works in her dad’s (Lance Reddick,  John Wick) small Harlem shop, Mr. Jay’s Records. Though she tries not to show it, she is smitten the day Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) walks in looking for a job. They spar verbally. Flirt. She is bent on becoming a TV producer. He, a tenor sax player in the jazz group the Dickie Brewster Quartet, wants a s...

ThyBlackMan.com) “I wish they would put themselves — the White House and Congress and everybody else making these decisions — in the shoes of us, the normal working people, who need help due to no fault of our own. I’m asking to be able to keep my apartment. To be able to live, and not live on the street. I’m not asking to be put in a golden apartment or anything. I just want to be able to live.” – Unemployed teacher Stephanie Lott, quoted in  Earlier this week, it appeared President Trump was about to sign the long-overdue -and grossly inadequate — COVID-19 relief legisla...

The first stimulus on paper anyway was at least worthy of the name.

ThyBlackMan.com) From the looks of President-elect Joe Biden‘s selections for cabinet positions and other high offices it seems belief in “climate change” has become a litmus test. Biden appears to have raised climate change to the level of a religious doctrine. In naming John Kerry a climate “czar,” Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) to head the Department of the Interior — if confirmed Haaland would become the first Native American cabinet secretary in history, a diversity priority for Biden — and Michael Regan, head of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality, who would b...

( ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t know about all of you, but it feels to me like Christmas came early this year. Electing a new president and vice president was a gift that 81 million Americans gave to ourselves and to one another. Every court rejection of Trump’s bogus stolen election claims was one more stocking stuffer. Now the only thing left on my Christmas wish list is a victory in Georgia’s Senate races and an end to Mitch McConnell’s power-abusing, progress-obstructing reign as Senate Majority Leader. Actually, that’s not quite true. I also want a Biden-Harris administration whose ...