(ThyBlackMan.com) As a black man who is roughly the same age as Grant Hill and Jalen Rose, I watched the back and forth between these two great warriors with extreme curiosity. During the ESPN documentary about the Fab Five, Jalen went out of his way to say that at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ten Things Every Black Father needs to do… 1) Tell your kids you love them every single day Love not only makes the world go round, but every person needs to feel loved in order to have the balance necessary to be truly successful. If you love your kids, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hear that? That gurgling sound would be from Bishop Eddie Long’s career circling the drain as we speak. The statement is neither hype nor for the sake of hyperbole. Long closed out the decade with four sexual coercion lawsuits, stories surrounding the alleged, previous abuse of his first wife ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) He was staying off the stage, although I had seen him as Master of Ceremonies all night. He was not present as I stood on stage prepared to give Sean Combs the “Renaissance Man Of The Decade, ” his well-deserved award, at the annual Jackie Robinson foundation event. Sean ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You’re reading this right now because divorce has impacted your home. That’s not unusual; for every two couples who got married today, another couple chose to end their marriage. The circumstances surrounding each divorce are as unique as the people whose marriages end, but once “I do” becomes “I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People with type 2 diabetes may eventually find that they have lost mobility, either because a limb has been amputated or they otherwise need to use a wheelchair. While this change can make it hard to think about exercise and fitness, but successful diabetes management is still a priority ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes the greatest step forward is made while looking back. In America, Black people imagine that they have made progress. The truth is that in many ways, we have gone backwards, but not on purpose. We have gone back to a place in time that was dark indeed, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida told us, once again, what most of us already knew: Black Division I men’s basketball players are lagging behind white student athletes when it comes to graduation rates. Although the study cites a long-term increase ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As teenagers, Jalen Rose and his Fab Five teammates believed that African-American basketball players who played for Mike Krzyzewski at Duke were Uncle Toms. That sentiment was expressed during The Fab Five, ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary film about the University of Michigan basketball team of the early 1990s. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “You promised that you would come to my game! Where were you?” “You said you would pick me up at 9:30 – and it’s 10:30! Why do I always have to be the last one to get picked up? You’re always late!” “How could you tell your friends about ...