(ThyBlackMan.com) When people are trying to get in shape or stay fit, they often focus quite heavily on how much they’re working out. The assumption is that, if you’re not seeing results then you must not be working out often enough. In reality, this is totally false. Sure, if you never ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Georgetown University professor, Michael Eric Dyson, suggested in January that whites should open up “individual reparations accounts” to literally pay back black Americans for slavery. Consequently, in March of this year, I wrote an article titled, “The Case for Reparations.” That article resonated deeply with many that have an appreciation ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) All I do is win, win, win no matter what Got money on my mind, I can never get enough And every time I step up in the building Everybody hands go up And they stay there, and they say yeah And they stay there, up, down, up, down, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a shame that our government don’t do their jobs with their constituency in mind. It’s very easy to sit on capitol hill and make laws that don’t benefit the American people. One can raise the argument that they don’t see themselves as one of us. They are so ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) No one ever said that higher education wouldn’t cost money. Across the country, tuition is steadily rising and students are taking longer to pay off their student loans. Today, 44 million consumers share $1.4 trillion in borrowed student debt – more than double what it was in 2008. On average, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many people who love the retro look from retro tech to vintage clothing and steampunk. The reasons are varied, and multi-faceted. One of the reasons is because they can bring back memories or make you feel as if you have traveled back in time. Since many of us ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Two weeks ago, entertainer extraordinaire Bill Cosby was handed a hung jury in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. Regardless of what you think of Cosby and the allegations made against him, a jury of his peers spoke and they concluded that they couldn’t ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My regular readers know that I have friends in all walks-of-life, and some practice old-school lifestyle avocations.  I communicate with them as often as possible and sometimes their perspectives serve as viewpoints I use in my articles. I have a friend who could be called a naturalist.  He’s retired ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My “Rewriting American History” column of a fortnight ago, about the dismantling of Confederate monuments, generated considerable mail. Some argued there should not be statues honoring traitors such as Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, who fought against the Union. Victors of wars get to write the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The clinicians would have a field day with #45 Trump’s Obama fixation. He hasn’t missed a chance to hector, accuse, bait, and hack up former President Obama at every turn. There were times during the 2016 presidential campaign that Trump seemed to be running against Obama, rather than Clinton. He ...