(ThyBlackMan.com) When will Black women’s health matter? That’s a question I’ve asked myself more than once during the recent Congressional effort to repeal health care reform that would deny countless women of color access to affordable and quality reproductive health care services. I asked myself that question again when I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama’s recently co-written op-ed, done with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron, asserted Transatlantic concerns about affairs in Libya — and intentionally or not, proclaimed ownership of the conflict. Whether the Libya intervention succeeds or fails, the achievement will be because of the efficacy ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here are some practical suggestions for staying safe and well during stressful times. Limit Multi-tasking Know when it is safe to multi-task…and when it is better to focus on one activity at a time. One of the biggest causes of avoidable accidents is trying to do too many things ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) ~ Friday’s No Good on Easter Island Challenging Easter’s Errors will land me on the Island of Patmos. ~ When did we start favoring the convenient fables of our own design over the Grand Design and Word of God?!! The answer can be found most blatantly in the Christian ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People do judge you by the words you speak. You may feel it to be unfair or biased, but there are some good reasons why people do. Read on to find out more. The words you use are much more powerful than most people realize. Lasting impressions are often ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What would be the most important ingredient to any healthy, successful relationship? Would it be love? Trust? Attraction? Or something else? This article explains the one factor, the one ingredient that is required for any relationship to be healthy and successful. Sitting in front of my desk is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a recent interview with Newsone, Rev. Al Sharpton laid out some of his divides with black intellectuals. The Rev seems to feel that many in “blackademia” are not comfortable with his approach to politics, and that the divide is becoming more apparent as time goes on. During the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here is a story about tragic loss and the struggle for meaning and renewal. One of my neighbors, John, would be described by some as a “man’s man”. He is in his late 40?s and stays active with adventure sports and playing a bit of guitar. He tends to stay ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The black political grapevine recently informed me that respected political strategist Donna Brazile plans to meet with Professor Cornel West at Princeton University. The meeting was apparently arranged in response to the “moral outrage” that West has expressed toward the Obama Administration over recent weeks. The disappointment came to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the nation acknowledges Financial Literacy Month, 2011, it is more obvious to me than ever that what we are going through now is not a just an economic recession, but a global reset, and that financial literacy is so much more than a brochure or website. It became ...