(ThyBlackMan.com) Whenever someone thinks they have few bullet points of supreme wisdom that can save the world, sane people instantly roll their eyes. The insanely curious will, of course, be unable to stop themselves from reading on. You decide which you are. Here are three ways to save America’s Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Often times as business owners (and even professionals) we can be so focused on getting the job done that we don’t bother to take a long hard look in the mirror. While the job may be well done, you can be unfairly judged because you did not become the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The last several weeks my mind has been marinated by the voices of Nikki Giovanni visiting at Edward Waters College, Al Letson poet, play write, actor and radio host recently speaking at the Writers Festival and University of North Florida, and the passionate and at times controversial words of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) MILF is an acronym used in pornography for “Mother I’d Like to F—“. Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a MILF. Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a “dumb twat”. Bill Maher joked that Sarah Palin’s Down Syndrome baby was the result of Palin having sex with John Edwards. Bill Maher ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans don’t excite me very much, but it seems that we have to at least acknowledge them. The party has become, in recent years, an even worse example of politics gone scary. The right wing opposition to having a Black liberal in the White House has led to some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Socioeconomically speaking, black America is in a rut — a very long-lasting rut. At 13.6%, black unemployment remains nearly double that of their white counterparts and higher than it was in 2008. Despite national trends which bally-hooed an inexplicable drop in January from a 2011 average of 15.8%, the economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest controversy in Beyoncé Knowles news may be her breast-feeding Blue Ivy in public, but I’m still shaking my head about the recent fuss over her True Match commercial for L’Oréal, which highlights the singer’s mixed-race heritage. In the ad the star says, “There’s a story behind my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I needed a lock tumbler changed, so I decided to give some business to the Black man operating out of his van on Crenshaw. He seemed nice enough and when he struck up a conversation, it seemed fairly harmless. We were having a nice discussion about the weather and women ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For someone who made history as his state’s first African-American to serve in Congress and developed an international reputation for his work in support of Africa, Donald Payne was a pretty unassuming man. He didn’t have the flash of a Charlie Rangel or the fire of a Maxine Waters, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congratulations to Ms. Octavia Spencer for winning the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for The Help (2011). I thoroughly enjoyed her on screen passion, humor and audacity. Her irreverence shimmered like glitter, her rage took on an artistic flair, and the relationship ...