(ThyBlackMan.com) A long life free of heart disease does not come just from controlling the standard measures like blood pressure and cholesterol. Sure, keeping tabs on these indicators is essential to gauging your heart’s health, but a few other numbers—some surprising—can be meaningful as well. Take control of your health ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Quick note from Dr. Boyce:  Thanks you to you who’ve supported our efforts to confront Universal Records and the horrible song they were planning to release disrespecting Emmett Till.  I spoke with Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday, Bishop Tavis Grant, Change.org and the spokesperson for the Emmett Till family about ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) You’ve probably heard about “pink slime,” the nutritionally questionable, ground beef filler treated with ammonia that has graced school cafeteria and fast food menus for decades.  Well, if you thought that was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet. Here are nine more gross ingredients that might be in your ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) One is Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful nation on earth. The other is Public Enemy Number One. As one stood before a thousand cameras, his image flashing across 70 million television screens, the other was holed up in a cabin on the other side of the continent, hundreds of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When a rapper says he’s gonna “pop a pill” then “beat that p*ssy like Emmett Till,” that’s when we know that he might have gone just a little bit too far.  But that’s just what happened this week, and the Till family isn’t happy. Lil Wayne and Future, two ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) On April 5, 2012 Shonda Rhimes premiered yet another television drama that would entice millions of viewers to faithfully return to their couches weekly to watch her newest production – Scandal. In case you haven’t seen it, this drama purportedly centers on protagonist Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), a “Professional ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I just read a snippet from an old article in Essence Magazine indicating that researchers have uncovered new information suggesting that Cleopatra may not have been Black. The article brought back to mind a piece I read by Earl Ofari Hutchinson many years ago entitled, Whose Black History To Believe? In ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Violence has always been America’s favorite pastime, and the gun, her preferred toy. It is no secret America was established by use of the gun in threatening, provoking and murdering vulnerable populations, and since her birth as a nation, her image in the world has been colored by these ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “If God knows all, and he knows a billion years before Billy is born that Billy is going to end up in Hell, is there anything Billy can do in life to make God wrong? The above question is designed to point out two things – first, it points ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip Hop enthusiasts watched the 55th Annual Grammy Awards with bated breath wondering if this was the year Nas, whom CNN recently named the greatest lyricist of all time, would finally win his first golden gramophone. It wouldn’t take long to realize this year would be the same as ...