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Black Women and White Women: Marriage Can’t Fix Broken.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Ladies many of us aspire to get married at some point in our life. However, sometimes we are in too much of a rush to get to the alter. Marriage can be a wonderful state, but it cannot fix hurt nor cover pain. Some of us come from family backgrounds riddled in abuse and/or abandonment. Though we may achieve success in other areas of our life relationships seem to bring past hurt... [Read the full story]

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Black Community: Don Lemon – CNN Sold To Conservatives.

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Don Lemon you saw in the morning is the same Don Lemon I used to watch at night. I admit I had my concerns about him leaving the night line up. I wondered if it was going to put him on the path to getting fired. There are many things one can say contributed to Don Lemon and CNN parting ways. We can look at his comments about women, and we can also look at the disrespect he endured... [Read the full story]

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Devout Christians: Is Divorce a Sin?

(ThyBlackMan.com) Churches proclaim divorce to be a sin with certain exceptions. These exceptions depend on which church you attend. Some believe divorce is a sin unless there is sexual infidelity, but what about abuse or neglect of a spouse? Most would say that sexual infidelity may warrant a divorce, but an abused spouse may be recommended a separation until the abuser gets help, and a neglected... [Read the full story]

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Black Community: Michelle Obama – An Example of Authenticity.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Every generation is blessed to have examples of poise, character, strength and class. Every role model has had challenges to face that can seem larger than life at times; it is how they manage and overcome said challenges that make people want to follow them. Black history is filled with people that we consider leaders that feel personal to us. In their only way, from a distance,... [Read the full story]

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Republican Mike Pence and the Bedfellows.

(ThyBlackMan.com) I will preface this article with one fact. The DOJ dropped the investigation into former Vice President Mike Pence’s possession of classified documents. I’ll let you marinate on that as I begin. It isn’t a surprise in Republican circles that Mike Pence threw his hat into the ring to run for President of the United States, after all it is the next logical step in his political... [Read the full story]

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Black Americans and White Americans: Law School Commencement Speech Is No Place for Far-Left Politics.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Education ought to be the bedrock for fostering critical thinking and providing a landscape for the exploration of diverse perspectives, rather than serving as an incubator for extremist ideologies. That essential ethos of education, unfortunately, is under threat, exemplified recently by the graduation speech of City University of New York law graduate and soon-to-be lawyer, Fatima... [Read the full story]

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Black Community and Caribbean Community: The Struggle against Oppression and for Development.

(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a ferment building in the world that is realigning relations among nation states, global political and economic power, and even the relations between life as we know it on Earth and Earth itself. Hanging over humanity are threats of obliteration from nuclear war, the proliferation of viruses, the destructiveness of climate change, and the recently announced blossoming of... [Read the full story]

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Is Age Your Issue With Joe Biden.

(ThyBlackMan.com) While sitting in a waiting room waiting to be seen by an orthopedic specialist random conversation is happening all around me. In this waiting room there are people from various different walks of life discussing life and living with the stranger sitting next to them. There is a TV on and though it just seems like a fixture, it becomes a focal point and begins to guide the various... [Read the full story]

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Republicans and Democrats: America’s Progression Toward Self-Destruction.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Each election cycle we get closer. In 2013, the nation experienced a 16-day federal government shutdown when the Republicans demanded the government’s spending bill include provisions which would impede or delay President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. In the midst of the 2013 shutdown, the AFL-CIO, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the United Way sent a joint letter to every... [Read the full story]

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Black Community: Explaining the ignorant, disgusting behavior received by Soccer star Vinícius Júnior.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Professional athletes of all backgrounds know that they will be subjected to taunts, boos, and jeers over the course of their careers. It’s not listed in the “job description” but it is part of the job nearly as much as performing on the field or court of play. It takes some mental fortitude to push through sports fans attempting to throw off professional athletes with their... [Read the full story]

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Devout Christians: Healing Isn’t Magic.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Pain and suffering is a reality in life. It’s hard to sit back and watch someone you love suffer with bad health while they try to invoke some Harry Potter like healing magic. I believe in the power of prayer, and meditation just as much as the next sistah. On Sunday Morning you see people working their way to the alter for prayer. Deep down they are up there hoping that when the... [Read the full story]

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Black Community: The NAACP Continues to Prove Its Irrelevancy.

(ThyBlackMan.com) I am fond of saying that weak people take strong positions on weak issues! The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) specifically and the media appointed radical Black liberal leaders in general are the embodiment of this adage. Their original mission was to secure civil rights and equality for Black folks; but under their current radical liberal leadership,... [Read the full story]

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Black Community: Blacks Fall for the Reparations Gimmick Again.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Anyone in the world is for free money where and when warranted. However, when it comes down to the reparations for Black Americans argument come about, I tend to bat an eye and disagree on the principle of it all. Every election cycle it seems that reparations become a topic and on some Democrats’ agenda item list. The basis -generally speaking – is that during slavery and some... [Read the full story]

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Black Women: “Bitch” Will Always be an Insult.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Receiving negativity from others is difficult to deal with. Being the object of constant ridicule can have a devastating effect on one’s self image and that of generations to follow. The situation shifts from outside attacks to self-inflicted harm rather quickly. As black women we must ask ourselves if we are willing to remain not only the victim of others, but of our own self-image.... [Read the full story]

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