(ThyBlackMan.com) Quick story. The other day I became short of breath. My heart began to beat erratically, it sounded kind of like when you put a shoe in a clothes drier. Clumpity, clump clump. Soon after my left arm felt like I had been laying on it all night, prickly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A recent report by Jason Jenkins, Investment U Research, shows that private prisons are earning even more money via warehousing prisoners and by establishing Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) with the land upon which their prisons are built. Corrections Corporation of America and The GEO Group, the two largest ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was the summer of 1998, the summer that I turned 18 years old. I was done with high school, had a full time job, and you could not tell me nothing. I was a shy guy, was pretty good with the girls, but just quiet. My best boy ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once again the Black community has been shown how irrelevant they have become in the U.S. Most of the blame can be laid at the feet of the media appointed Black leadership for selling out their people. And we’ve gotten nothing in return. At least Judas Iscariot had sense ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is time to face facts. Both the Republican and the Democratic Party have failed Black America in this modern era. While many bask in the emotional glow of having a Black President, our position hasn’t changed significantly since the passage of the civil rights legislation. While we have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Alright lets get to it, this weeks rant n rave post is about those of you who choose to cheat on your mate, and have the audacity to throw out some dumb ass excuse. I hear people say that they cheat because they do not get the time that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “IF YE WERE ABRAHAM’S CHILDREN, YE WOULD DO THE WORKS OF ABRAHAM” Every since I wrote the column “Crabs in a Barrel,” the gross hypocrisy of South Carolina State Senator, Rev. Darrell Jackson, has lingered with me. In that column I describe how the Black, South Carolina State Senator, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) CNN contributor Roland Martin, who departed the network on April 6, has been named the National Association of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) 2013 Journalist of the Year. In today’s American media, there are a number of Black faces on the screen as anchors, pundits, and hosts. But none represented the views and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, the rapper TI expressed a bit of outrage over the link that the website TMZ made between Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the hip-hop music industry. Earlier in the week, it was reported that Tsarnaev loved to listen to hip-hop music, and that he was a a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m in the thick of writing a book about women and happiness – and lessons seem to appear constantly. Last Wednesday, I was still on a high from my trip to New York – including an appearance on the TODAY Show and quick meetings with fabulous folks at the ...