(ThyBlackMan.com) As a young Big Ten basketball fan in the late 1970s, one of my favorite players was a silky-smooth swingman for Indiana named Mike Woodson. Whenever an Indiana game was shown in the Detroit market, number 42 was my guy. Woodson had a great collegiate career, en route to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Women in the industry of music have it hard these days. Either they will bare it all or choose to be a one-hit wonder. Two women in music today command respect, sing what they want, and put it down on the microphone for their fans. Adele and Lady Gaga ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a lot of money in male bashing, especially regarding Black Men. I remember when the book “Waiting to Exhale” first came out, I read it and I saw the movie, and like every other Sister in there I cheered Angela Bassett on when she burned up all ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Involved single fathers, the one’s who pick up their children, keep them for the weekend or every other week are still sometimes left out in the cold when it comes the little things. Dads who care want more rather than less information about their children. They want to know ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I see the evolution of the case of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old boy who was killed by a night watchman under suspicious circumstances, I am both impressed and concerned. I am impressed that the world has come together to find justice for Trayvon Martin. His death will not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once upon a time in Jamaica. . . The sweetish sting of the heady drink told him he was home. White rum, real overproof white Jamaican rum can only be had in Jamaica. A weaker version is exported. He took another sip, and his limbs seemed to loosen. He ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Usher vs. Chris Brown. Is there any comparison? Some people feel that there is none with Usher winning hands down. Others believe that Chris Brown knocks Usher out the box. Usher was born, Usher Terry Raymond IV born on October 14, 1978. Usher Raymond is a singer, songwriter, dancer, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To be or not to be: “suspicious” or just suspiciously black? The expression Driving While Black (DWB) was coined to reflect the criminalization of through racial profiling that has led in the last few decades to numerous Department of Justice (DOJ) consent decrees in major cities across the U.S ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black pundits say that to be black and Republican makes one a despicable race-traitor worthy of no-holds-barred punishment. As a black conservative Republican, I’m not frightened by this; it just angers and frustrates me. My frustration comes from the knowledge that those claiming to have black America’s empowerment and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A prominent issue in the New York press is the New York Police Department’s “Stop-and-Frisk” policy. This policy was originally designed to reduce crime in New York City by targeting suspects likely to be involved in criminal activity. The media’s coverage of the controversy it has generated takes different ...