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L.L. McKenna

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 6, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · L.L. McKenna

    Rula Jebreal’s “AIPAC Monkey” Remark About Hakeem Jeffries Sparks Backlash. (opens the original)

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    (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 quickly drew condemnation from the Congressional Black Caucus and several Democratic lawmakers. Sit with the arithmetic

  2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · L.L. McKenna

    JD Vance’s Working Class Agenda and Black Men (opens the original)

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    (ThyBlackMan.com) I have watched a lot of politicians stand at a podium and talk about the little man. Most of the time the little man they picture looks nothing like me, my nephews, or the fellas I came up with back home. So when Vice President JD Vance gets up and mourns forgotten workers, shuttered plants, and hard times in Ohio, I listen. But I listen the way an old head listens. Slow, waiting to see whether the words carry any weight. He tells a real story. Middletown, a rough childhood, a

  3. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · L.L. McKenna

    JD Vance’s Working Class Agenda and Black Men (opens the original)

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    (ThyBlackMan.com) I have watched a lot of politicians stand at a podium and talk about the little man. Most of the time the little man they picture looks nothing like me, my nephews, or the fellas I came up with back home. So when Vice President JD Vance gets up and mourns forgotten workers, shuttered plants, and hard times in Ohio, I listen. But I listen the way an old head listens. Slow, waiting to see whether the words carry any weight. He tells a real story. Middletown, a rough childhood, a

  4. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · L.L. McKenna

    Black Men, You Don’t Have to Be Barack Obama to Be Successful. - ThyBlackMan.com (opens the original)

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    (ThyBlackMan.com) I remember the night in November 2008 when grown Black men in my circle wept without any shame at all. One of our own stood before the world as our incoming president, and a thing we had been raised to believe impossible suddenly breathed. That moment mattered. It still does. Yet somewhere down the road, something crept into our thinking. We began measuring our whole worth against one man on one mountain, and any one of us who did not plant a flag at that summit started to feel

  5. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · L.L. McKenna

    Byron Donalds Could Become Florida’s First Black Governor Without Running on Race. - ThyBlackMan.com (opens the original)

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    (ThyBlackMan.com) There is a moment on election night when the winner steps to the microphone and tells you, without saying it plainly, how he wants to be understood. Byron Donalds had his moment this week. He stood on that Orlando stage with his wife and three sons behind him, and he never once mentioned that a candidate built like him had never sat in the governor’s mansion up in Tallahassee. Reporters noticed. He noticed them noticing. “Florida is a great meritocracy in America,” he told the

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