(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many across America wondering if President Barack Obama has the guts to put together an agenda for black America. The constant conversation about The Black Agenda, and what it means, has led to crucial divides in the African American community, creating camps between the Tavis Smiley crew ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, the American Council on Education issued a report on the state of black males in the higher education system. The report reveals some interesting and disturbing trends. It turns out that black men are graduating from college at a rate which lags significantly behind other ethnic groups. When ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are few things more frustrating that remaining stuck in the old when it’s time to embrace something new. Sometimes the new thing is an inevitable change or transition, whether it was something you wanted or something that was thrust upon you. At other times, your new season is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Black America, This 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is an opportune moment to reflect on how far we’ve come, and how far we have to go. It calls us to reconsider the words Dr. King gave us at the end of his life, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Wouldn’t it be something if a contrite and chastened Woods became a poster boy for fidelity? Wouldn’t it be something if a contrite and chastened Woods became a poster boy for fidelity? Four months, one week and four days after the National Enquirer reported he was having an affair ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Conservatism is a dead philosophy, at least to these jaundiced eyes. Another zombie is Liberalism but it at least has enough visual diversity to lend it the illusion of broad appeal. Both have become burdens that have outlived their usefulness despite herculean efforts by supporters. Somewhere amid rhetorical grunts and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the last decade the prevalence of HIV infection in the United States has reached new highs and now rivals the numbers we see in sub-saharan Africa. According to Wafaa M. El-Sadr, director of the International Center for Aids Care and Treatment at Columbia University, more than half a million ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Community policing is supposed to be an alternative to the ” Lock up every Negro in sight! ” pathology afflicting American law enforcement. In a modern era where even a sitting ” post racial ” US president can ( correctly ) call arresting a wealthy, liberal, Ivy League-employed Black man in his home ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tiger’s return to golf this week at the Masters is a uniquely American story… Tiger Woods is America. Rich beyond imagining. Ungovernable. Loved. Hated. Brilliant. Witless. Two-faced. Wanton. Thoughtless. Gifted. Smug. Pious. Addicted. Insatiable. Unfaithful. Courageous. Deluded. Craven. Devoted. Lonely. Weak. Strong. A model. Adrift. The sole remaining superpower ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I never liked music until I heard hip hop. I never really liked hip hop until I heard NWA. Call me a thug, a hoodlum, or a dangerous black man, but as an 18-year old teenager, the chronic coming out of those speakers took my breath away. Ice Cube was ...