(ThyBlackMan.com) As I’ve run around the country giving Black History Month speeches, I’ve been thinking a great deal about where we are and where we are going as a community; I’ve also been asked about President Barack Obama’s role in Black history. Since the 44th president’s existence has been entirely ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s 2012, another election year, and every Black community in America has candidates that always run for office; those same candidates always lose! After the election results are posted, my friends and neighbors often run to me and ask, “Lucius why didn’t you help him or her?” My answer is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Stunned Americans are questioning, “Why would Obama, in an election year, boldly trash the first amendment, forcing Catholic institutions to provide birth control, abortion drugs and other contraceptive services which goes against their faith?” These baffled, naïve people still do not get it. First and foremost, President Obama is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Beyoncé Knowles is featured in a new L’Oreal commercial for a foundation system called True Match. In the advertisement, Knowles states, “There’s a story behind my skin. It’s a mosaic of all the faces before it. My only make-up? True Match.” Knowles’ heritage is described in the ad as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To be obese is to be overweight, but to be overweight doesn’t necessarily make you obese. A bulky weight trainer, whose muscle mass may take up a high percentage of their weight, could have the same BMI as a dormant couch potato. Tricky right? “What exactly is a BMI?” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Ugly is what ugly does,” that what my grandmother used to tell me. It was one of the many philosophical idioms she used to instruct me throughout my life as I was growing up as a child. Over the years I started to understand what she meant. I take ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It doesn’t pay to talk too much! I’m sure Roland Martin is feeling that now. Sure I can’t even follow him on twitter because he talks….well tweets too much. But I’m still outraged at the nature of the suspension. As I hear Roland Martin was suspended from CNN for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For about two decades now, Denzel Washington has been one of the most charismatic and popular A-list superstars in movies. He’s been that rare movie star unblemished by scandal and broadly respected by filmmakers and audiences. For the most part, he has played a prototypical hero but lately, like ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am going to tell you now; your daddy ain’t shyt. I need to put that in your head right away. He wouldn’t marry me, and I thought by getting myself pregnant, that would make him commit to me, but he still didn’t. He left me, now all I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While diabetes and prediabetes occur in people of all ages and races, some groups have a higher risk for developing the disease than others. Diabetes is more common in African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, as well as the aged population. This means they are also ...