(ThyBlackMan.com) So about a day ago, I wrote an entry to commend black women of all shapes, colors and sizes. Article can be found here; https://thyblackman.com/2011/04/02/a-tribute-to-the-sistas/. I encouraged all black women no matter what shade, hairstyle, or attitude they had, to love themselves in the face of negative media images. I told ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Twice. That is the number of times that I’ve dated outside of my race. Once when I was 10, the other time, I was 11. On those two separate occasions I dated outside of my race because well, they liked me and I liked them. And that was fine. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In attacking Libya, the UN, the US and their western allies are stomping on a paper thin principle, made more porous by their own inaction against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The Bush doctrine on regime change in Iraq was bad, therefore had no UN mandate, so we were made ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People often use anarchy and chaos interchangeably. They refer to civil unrest as “anarchy, total chaos.” As an anarchist of the anarcho-libertarian variety myself, naturally, this habit irks me. Anarchy is simply the absence of forceful authority. Chaos is disorder. The two things can coexist, but it may be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A year ago President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Affordable Care Act”), guaranteeing access to health coverage for 32 million uninsured people in America including 95 percent of all children. Racial minorities are disproportionately uninsured today and the Affordable Care Act will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is an old zen koan that says, “don’t just do something, sit there.” It has wonderful application to family life today. We’ve created the most overscheduled and busiest society in history. Our kids are moving from one activity to another, and they seem to have more schoolwork, more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Gasoline prices have been steadily climbing for several months, and Americans are feeling the pain at the pump. The possible culprits (from greedy oil execs to Mideast turmoil) are as plentiful as the proposed solutions (more offshore drilling, green energy or government reserves). But what is really driving prices ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming Malcolm X biography could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, died Friday, just days before the book described as his life’s work was to be released. He was 60. His wife, Leith Mullings, said Marable died from complications of pneumonia ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African American men have the highest risk of developing oral cancer compared to any other group in the U.S. population. It is a cancer which occurs twice as often in the black population as in whites, and survival statistics for blacks over five years are also poorer at 33%, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some important things have clearly changed in the U.S. economy. Jobs are hard to find and probably will be for awhile. Many families feel like they’re falling behind. Retirement, for many, seems more like an unaffordable luxury than a natural phase of life. Even the government may not be ...