(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re an African-American male age of 45 and over, and you haven’t had a serious conversation with your doctor about prostate cancer, shame on you. Why? Because getting serious about prostate cancer is really not about you – really, it’s not. Prostate cancer screening is about love and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In our course on urban inequality at Harvard this semester, we want our students to understand the roots of the social conditions in America’s inner cities. To that end, we get some help from Bodie, Stringer Bell, Bubbles and others from HBO’s “The Wire.” Take this scene in a Baltimore ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Ins and Outs of the Dating Game for Guys… You are a guy who is always in a serious relationship. You are a guy who hasn’t dated in years. Or maybe you’re a guy who has never been successful with women. Whatever your situation, there are some common dating ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In December, 2008 a stern faced Reverend Jesse Jackson looked directly into a news camera and bluntly told the nation that he was not “an emissary” in the alleged scheme by his son, Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. to shell out $1 million in bribe money to disgraced and indicted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black people all over the world have a rich and diverse historic legacy and a future that is full of promise, opportunity and prosperity if we continue our struggle for true freedom, justice and equality without engaging in self-denial, self-destruction, disunity or any form of mis-education. For centuries, there have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the Bishop Eddie Long story surfacing recently, a familiar undertone seems to be emerging during the many conversations on the topic. Nope, I’m not talking about the “DL” phenomenon in black churches. I’m talking about the issue of pastoral compensation. Namely, is it right for a pastor to drive ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For Christian singles, every day brings the opportunity to do the right thing or the wrong thing. How do we choose? What do we base our decisions on? How do we look at each new situation and pick the course that agrees with our faith? As adopted sons and daughters ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans are cultural children. We are not fully developed as a people, because we don’t know who we are, what we stand for or where we are going. Many of us don’t even think about it. The best that many of us can manage is to be whatever ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NAACP Legal Defense Fund will argue in an appeals court in San Francisco today that the state of Washington’s denial of voting rights to convicted felons is rooted in discrimination… The most fundamental political right in our society is the right to vote. Today (Sept. 21) the U.S. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was recently checking out some of CNN’s special, “Black in America,” the show they seem to do once a year. In the series, African Americans are analyzed like lab rats in a cage, with producers highlighting every dysfunction imaginable, as if we have a monopoly on counter productive behavior. ...