(ThyBlackMan.com) Memo to fathers of newborns: there’s more to your baby than late-night feedings, changing diapers, and struggling with car seats. I hope you can stay awake long enough to read this, because I’m hoping to make your life a little easier. Now, in most cases, the first months of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It would have been real nice if I could have in good conscience stayed out of the entire Herman Cain for president dialog. Being asked a direct question regarding his candidacy and whether I  could support him blew that whole idea out of the water. Since I am not ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I just spent the week in New Orleans, the powerbase for one of the most talented, powerful and destructive forces in the history of music: Lil Wayne.  I’ve admittedly bopped my head to the tunes of Lil Wayne in the past, feeling the same guilt that any man might ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The 21st century global economy will have winners and losers. Will African-Americans be among the winners in this new economy? Have African-Americans accomplished something economically during the first decade of this new century to claim a place on the global scene? After a thorough analysis of our economic infrastructure, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. Psalm 121:2 It is important to remember where our help comes from. We are not in this fight alone. Sometimes it seems like it is just us against the world, but remember we have the Holy Trinity and minions ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember years ago sitting in an enclosed patio of a New York City restaurant when a man came up and pressed his private parts against the window. Like a scene out of Sex in the City my girlfriend and I gave him the itty bitty sign and kept ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A quick flip through Google on the way to writing this piece pulls up Merriam-Webster’s listing of a definition of the term “Sisterhood”. It reads as follows: The state of being a sister A community or society of sisters The solidarity of women based on shared conditions, experiences or ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I am writing this not as an attack but rather to set the record straight. It is evident that the modern athlete, sports fan and sports talk radio pundit all contribute to what can be described as the selfish, self-centered, individualistic and money hungry mentality of grown men who ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP presidential contenders Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich figured out yet another ploy to knock President Obama. Blame him for the near Great Depression level of joblessness among blacks, especially young black males. Both made the claim in their talks to the Republican Leadership Conference. Gingrich got so carried ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Michigan parole board agreed on Friday to release former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from prison.  Kilpatrick had spent more than a year behind bars after violating the terms of his probation.  He is set to be out no earlier than July 24, according to a spokesman for the ...