(ThyBlackMan.com) For as long as we, in the black community can remember, there has been a sort of value placed on black people who tend to be of a fairer complexion. Since the days that our ancestors endured the horrors of slavery when the slave owners would place blacks of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today many of you trust your doctor as the key and often unquestioned authority to your health. Try door number two. Because what if he or she is not? What if your health is not your doctor’s top priority? Point of fact, realistically it isn’t. Your body was fearfully ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands. Therefore, I must make provision for it.” So David made lavish preparations for it before his death. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As women we often get so caught up in solving everyone outside of ourselves problem and attempting to ensure they’re happy that we rob ourselves of our own happiness. Imagine that! Then we say things like “when I need someone no one is around”, if you can make another ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Friends, allow me to take you on a journey back in time. Contemplate these words: I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I can admit that I am not very keen on being the only black family in my neighborhood. It’s not wrong to place some worth or status where you live but at what price must we have the ideal home in the non-black part of town. Many of our people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no sensible argument that can be made to counter W.E.B. Du Bois’ statement that “the problem of the 20th Century will be the color line.” If any criticism can be hurled at this Duboisian prophecy it is that it ends too soon and should have been extended far ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everywhere you go and everywhere you turn, controversy is present in everyone’s life, like a winter cold resistant to all forms of health remedies you have taken. I want to tell you that Black America is one and void of controversy, but if the truth is said, we are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The foremost blessing and the most prominent curse of being an African-American Studies Professor begin and end at the same source, my students. I have repeatedly stated on this site that I consider it a privilege to teach Black collegians for the past two decades. Considering the joy that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Love is both a noun and a verb. If love, the noun, is an intense feeling of deep affection, self, the noun, one’s essential being that distinguishes them from other women, and your, an adjective, meaning belonging or associated with a person, then “Love Your Self” takes new meaning. ...