(ThyBlackMan.com) Regardless of the what the talking heads say on television and governmental announcements to the contrary, 2016 will be the most challenging year for African Americans (AA) and indeed the nation since the start of The Great Recession back in 2008. We will go over the specifics in a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After months of watching all sorts of political polls, we are finally just a few weeks away from actually beginning to see some voting in primary elections. Polls let people vent their emotions. But elections are held to actually accomplish something. The big question is whether the voters themselves ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the political landscape started to crystallize at the onset of the 2012 election, I wrote a column making a comparison to the election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected. My point then was that the common ground of these two elections was the fracturing of Americans’ most ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the main consequences of not looking after your teeth and skipping those regular visits to the dentist is the buildup of plaque. Young children who do not yet know how to brush their teeth properly should learn by using dentist toys for kids. Plaque is not pleasant ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last July, Anthony Hervey, an outspoken black advocate for the Confederate flag, was killed in a car crash. Arlene Barnum, a surviving passenger in the vehicle, told authorities and the media that they had been forced off the road by a carload of “angry young black men” after Hervey, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) All over the United States, people are recoiling recently at vicious acts that are being committed with increasing frequency against Muslims. Girls and women wearing headscarves have been beaten on the streets. Mosques have been firebombed and desecrated. An entire school was shuttered over an art assignment asking students ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump isn’t king of the GOP hill anymore–at least not on the debate stage. Like an expert matador, Ted Cruz wasted no time goring the frontrunner bull Donald Trump. After the first commercial break of the evening, Cruz was asked to address Trump’s birther charge that he’s not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A while back, I posted this lighthearted question on Facebook after what I imagined would be a 15-minute errand turned into an hour and a half journey through a maze of tempting detours and hundreds of unhurried weekend shoppers: “Why did I think I could ‘run into Ikea right ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A bath is the most prominent feature of any bathroom, and it signifies comfort and luxury as well. Furthermore, it’s often quite an investment to have a nice bath installed, and in order for a bath to last for a long time, it needs to be maintained properly. To ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In many ways, like Job in the Bible, “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me (Job 3:25 King James Version). I was hoping against all hope that the Republican Party would do something to ...