(ThyBlackMan.com) In the first presidential election since the tea party’s emergence, Republican candidates are drifting rightward on a range of issues, even though more centrist stands might play well in the 2012 general election. On energy, taxes, health care and other topics, the top candidates hold positions that are more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ding dong the witch is dead. Shot in the head and buried at sea so that he will not be enshrined in any living act or memorial. Some folks still have questions. Some folk say that we shot an unarmed man. My response to them is that no one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a growing debate over the relevancy, value and role of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the 21st century. Added fuel for this debate, by those who argue HBCUs have outlived their mission and usefulness, is the number of these colleges and universities that labor under ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I will never forget when I heard the political poem, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, performed at The Arlington Museum of Art, in Arlington, Texas. I was so enamored, attentive, and wanted to know if the poet on the stage was the author of the powerful words. I later ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is probably nothing that drives me to anger more than hearing stories of abused children. It is the one exception that I make to my opposition to capital punishment, making an allowance for those who murder children; a difficult deviation from my stand against the death penalty that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once a year, I like dedicating a column to the young brothers who are going to step forward into the adult ranks with their diplomas and degrees…tassel flip included. Sadly, high schools, colleges and universities no longer honor their graduates with speeches from ‘real’ folk. As exampled by a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I sat down to write this column a few years back, I remembered that I paused to reflect upon an exhausting week. First, my wife informed me that the teenaged son of a dear family friend sat locked up in our county juvenile detention center. His crime? Hanging ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Well, they’ve finally broken down and done what they needed to do last week. After tremendous public scrutiny, Psychology Today has issued an apology for the shocking article published on their site which claimed that black women are uglier than women from other races. The article, written by Satoshi Kanazawa, an Evolutionary ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You love your children; you deeply desire to see them grow up healthy and happy. But what is the most important thing you can give your children to help them grow up feeling loved, nurtured, self-confident and at peace? There are many good answers here, such as providing a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you want some expert fathering advice? Let’s turn to the real experts out there—the dads in the trenches. We put out a question to dads on our weekly e-mail. It’s a question we also ask to men who are being considered for Father of the Year in several cities ...