(ThyBlackMan.com) Silly, sick, demeaning cracks made by such as the canned Univision host Rodner Figueroa likening First Lady Michelle Obama to a Planet of the Apes character are not new. Four years ago, the then CEO of the Tennessee Hospitality Association, Walt Baker, took much heat and lost a lot ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) We are in a new economy where up is down and down is up. Damn if you do and damn if you don’t. The national unemployment rate for blacks in February clocked in at 10.4 percent. That rate is an increase from January, which was 10.3 percent and matches ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I was introduced to Kathy Oliver, an African-American, at a Jamaican social club in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It came out during our conversation that she was introduced to Jamaican culture by her significant other, a Rastafarian named Martin. She remarked that she had written a book about the death ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) We as women must make a simple decision are we, or are we not, bitches and whores. I totally agree with the concept that Black men ought not call us such things, and they should respect Black women. Having gotten that out the way I do feel it’s time ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As a first generation Hip-Hopper who was nearly born into the culture, I have witnessed every major Star come and go from the beginning of the genre. As a Hip-Hop executive, I can honestly say that I have my head around this culture and I’ve completely and intentionally submerged ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Does the future belong to the young? Does God alone control the future? Do you have a hand in your destiny and the future path of others? Or are there forces, powers, principalities, rulers of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places those who shape and control the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My fellow Americans, please forgive me for not being able to feign any anger at Parker Rice and Levi Pettit.  Rice and Pettit were two of the University of Oklahoma (OU) students and members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity who were caught on video tape making racially ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Five years before the racist video by the disgraced Oklahoma University fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon ignited a firestorm of student and public rage, hundreds of students and faculty members were up in arms over the “Compton Cook Out” at the University of California, San Diego and several other UC ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “So what’cha what’cha what’cha want what’cha want? I get so funny with the money that you flaunt. I said where’d you get your information from, huh? You think that you can front when revelation comes?” The aforementioned lyrics are from the classic Beastie Boys song, “So What’cha Want.” It’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Alright Family, enough is enough!!!!!!!! It was bad enough I had to endure that bullsh*t Superbowl in which Roger Goodell made the call to the Seahawks bench and threatened somebody to make Russell Wilson the hero of the game, well okay maybe we don’t have proof for that, but ...