(ThyBlackMan.com) The unemployment rate among African-American men will increase dramatically next month thanks to the NBA lockout, because the league and the players union have failed to renegotiate their agreement about the split of basketball revenues. The owners want a 50-50 split of profits on ticket sales, TV rights, souvenir and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) You stare in the mirror at the aching arms, busted lip and bruised ego.  The constant apologies have now fallen on death ears.  The only reason you are still here is to keep your family intact.  You finally have to admit that you are a victim and you should ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) At a press conference in Trenton on October 4, New Jersey governor Chris Christie announced that he would not pursue the Republican nomination for president of the United States.  He made the right decision.  Christie’s political star and presidential hopes had been on the rise for weeks prior as ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The political nation has gone crazy with the emergence of one Herman Cain as a legitimate candidate for the Republican nod for President. He is even leading in various straw polls across the country. He has now become more of an interesting character in the media since most people don’t ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For the last 15 years rap has evolved from mafia rap of the mid-late 90’s, rap records for the charts in the early 2000’s, and snap music of the mid 2000’s. In the midst of all of that, Shawn Corey Carter, better known as Jay Z, had remained a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Our current President, Barack Obama is a brilliant man. Personally I would rank him as one of the smartest Presidents we have had since Richard Nixon and in the same breath with Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson. But as history has shown us, to be a brilliant ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I like Mitt Romney.  I do.  In fact, how can anyone help liking him?  A vigorous man in the Goldilocks prime of his life — not too young to scare the electorate by his lack of experience, not too old to worry about the onset of decrepitude.  A man ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP Presidential Herman Cain again solemnly told a pack of pesky reporters in New Hampshire recently that he was absolutely confident that in a head to head match-up against President Obama that he could snatch a third of the black vote. The notion that he can get a big ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) To this point, the economic growth leader of the 21st century is the wireless communications industry. Millions of people regularly use cellular phones. With today’s cell phone, you can talk to anyone on the planet. Inside your cell phone are: a compact speaker, microphone, keyboard, display screen, and a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Because of Blacks’ penchant for assimilation, Black politics is little more than an afterthought to many across America’s mainstream media.  Blacks’ political role is to support maintenance of the status quo. Instead of making sure that measures toward curbing Black unemployment and underemployment are being carved into the 2012 ...