March 2026

Volume 6 · Issue 3

​March examines Black male employment, barber-shop economics, Houston culture and Birmingham mayor Randall Woodfin. Commentary also addresses the NAACP Image Awards, a BLM leader’s altercation, religious authority and the film Sinners.

• Houston: We Have a Problem. It’s Ni**as.

• Luxury Haircut Prices Are Killing Black Barber Shops

• When God Disappears, the State Steps In

• Black Escapism: “Sinners” Offers False Vision of Empowerment

• BLM Leader Fights Female Over “Money and Cigarettes”

• Black Men Need Better “Soft Skills” to Compete in the Workplace

• Randall Woodfin: The Democratic Mayor Who’s Getting Black Men Right

• Blasphemy at NAACP Awards; Decline of Black Excellence