(ThyBlackMan.com) About a third of men and women in the United States admit to lying to their doctors, according to a 2010 survey. But keeping secrets can be dangerous, especially if the information you’re withholding leads to a wrong diagnosis. Besides, “a doctor’s job is to advocate for your health, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Riding his bike on his way to the library up the street on Fulton Avenue in a reasonably upscale neighborhood of Salisbury, NC not far from home, my then sixteen year old son was accosted finding a police car in front of him and one behind his bike. Seems ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in 1994 and 1995 I wrote a couple of articles about Rush Limbaugh, both of which were centered on advertisers who bought time on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show. How the time flies. One article rebuked the Florida Citrus Commission for giving Rush Limbaugh a $1 million contract to be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you see George Clooney getting arrested in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C.? The Hollywood activist brought his “A-Team” for the latest demonization of the Islamic government of the Republic of Sudan. The staged sidewalk show featured George Clooney’s father Nick, civil rights leaders Martin Luther ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A chapter in the National Urban League’s 2012 State of Black America report reached a sobering conclusion about the Black middle class. “Our analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will clearly establish that whether one looks at education, income or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you ever heard of the Gullah people of South Carolina? They are also called Geechies. The word “Gullah” is short for the “Gola” people of Angola, and “Geechie” refers to the “Gidzi” people of Sierra Leone. Many of the inhabitants of the Sea Islands off the coast of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Someone recently forwarded me a picture of the Chicago team for the 2012 re-election campaign for President Barack Obama. The picture was full of enthusiastic supporters, each of them grinning from ear-to-ear. But in the midst of all this excitement about re-electing the nation’s first black president, there was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Can’t get your morning going without a cup of Joe or an energy drink? During the lunchtime slump do you haveto down a 5-hour energy shot? Well, we’ve all been guilty of it at one time or another–suffering from the caffeine crash later. Believe it or not, some people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most young people today have studied the stories of the great civil rights struggle in this country and the heroic acts of many from all walks of life that eventually brought about change in America. While older generations may recall segregation or the disturbing days of water hoses and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For two fateful days at the end of April and the first day of May 1992, I ducked around police cordons, and barricades, cringed in fear at the cackle of police gunfire. I choked, and gagged on and was blinded by the thick, acrid smoke that at times blotted ...