Christians Corner
Why Our Happiness is So Sad…
(ThyBlackMan.com) Becoming a dispassionate spectator of life often happens to us from one of the most unexpected sources. Within the framework of Christianity,...
Men: Find What Matters Most for the Rest of Your Life…
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you hit midlife, it’s natural to look back at what you’ve experienced so far. You may discover that, with about half of your...
Spiritual Depression…
(ThyBlackMan.com) Spiritual depression. The dark night of the soul. This phenomenon describes a malady that even the greatest of Christians have suffered...
Prayer and Worship: The Relationship…
(ThyBlackMan.com) We know from scripture that two things God requires of us as Christians is prayer and worship. We have been instructed in God’s Word...
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Relationships
Make Your Marriage Rock – How to Make the Most of Your Marriage…
(ThyBlackMan.com) The festivities are over, the guests have all gone and now you are finally man and wife. Sure you are enjoying the first flush of love...
10 Most Common Mistakes Men Make with Women…
(ThyBlackMan.com) So you’ve been trying very hard to woo that pretty, young thing, but nothing seems to be working for you so far? More than doing...
The State of Black Love??
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t have great confidence in the state of Black Love. By ” state of Black Love ” I don’t mean an annual...
Top Five Romantic Gestures…
(ThyBlackMan.com) Check out our favorite romantic gestures for couples to keep the love alive… Who says romance is dead? These loving gestures will...
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News
Time to End the Criminal-Punishment Binge…
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mass incarceration has not reduced crime, but it has made prison a more common experience for poor black men than joining a union or doing military service… For decades now, America has been pursuing a deeply punitive anti-crime social policy: the criminal-punishment binge. It is what lies at the root of the heavy overrepresentation of blacks — and increasingly, Latinos... [Read the full story]
Chris Brown’s second coming: Has he humbled himself?
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’ve followed entertainment news for the past year or so, you’re familiar with controversy that has befallen the young singer, following is brutal post-2009 Grammys beating of then girlfriend and pop-star Rihanna. And, if you’re like me, you’ve grown sick of seeing his name, especially when it has been attached to half-baked apologies and poorly executed... [Read the full story]
Hip-Hop’s contribution to black poverty…
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip Hop promotes blacks living beyond their means, skipping out on education… The debate has raged for centuries about whether art influences society or where society is influences art. In the case of popular hip-hop music, the “art” both creates and justifies society, even at it own expense. As more communities dip below the poverty line and into unemployment,... [Read the full story]
Expose the NCAA, not the athletes…
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NCAA rule book is not the United States Constitution. If anything, the rule book supporting the bogus concept of “amateur athletics” is akin to the laws that supported Jim Crow, denied women suffrage and upheld slavery. The architect of the modern NCAA, the organization’s former president, Walter Byers, spelled out all of this in his 1997 mea culpa, “Unsportsmanlike Conduct:... [Read the full story]
Do blacks feel betrayed by Obama’s silence on race?
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama has become a racial enigma. When it comes to the black/white divide in America, Obama is believed to be everything from Clarence Thomas to Malcolm X, depending on whom you ask. The right-wing identifies Obama as a radical black man who hates white people, and the progressive black community sees Obama as yet another political sellout fresh off Harvard Yard. The “great”... [Read the full story]
Rick Ross, educated brothers and The Big Meech syndrome…
(ThyBlackMan.com) A gangsta-inspired double-consciousness? I think I’m Big Meech/Larry Hoover? Whipping work/hallelujah? One nation/under god ? Real n*ggas getting money from the fu*king start? –B.M.F (Blowin Money Fast) by Rick Ross featuring Styles P?? Earlier this month, Casey Gane-McCalla, a journalist, rapper, comedian and Facebook friend, declared on his FB status: “I am an Ivy... [Read the full story]
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