(ThyBlackMan.com) God gives us strength as we follow His rescue plan, when the battles of life leave us spiritually weak, confused, devastated and drained. He gives power to the faint, the weary and the fallen who may also be destitute. Wait on God for a renewal of strength. Ignore temptations ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) So I was having a conversation the other day with a relative who was visiting this area for the holidays. To say that this relative cannot stand President Obama would be a vast understatement. Typically, it’s very easy for me to avoid the gravitational pull into the political rabbit ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve always been intrigued with the symbolism used to depict change from one year to another.  It’s interesting to see my 365 days through a year represented by a decrepit old man who’d been a baby just 365 days before! I’m more amazed that the symbolism hasn’t changed and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Again, this is not an attempt to proselytize or to shape your thinking regarding religion or spirituality. Rather, this is an attempt to delve into a subject that is often brought up among Black folks and used to separate us instead of bring us together around practical economic/public policy ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Is it possible to have a Black consciousness and be a Christian? Are the terms contradictory? Is “Conscious Christian” an oxymoron? I can hear some of you now, saying, “Uh oh, Jim, you are in deep water with this topic.” That’s fine; this column has not survived for nearly ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The events surrounding and leading up to Black Lives Matter, Chi-Raq and the black incarceration crisis together constitute the most serious racial civil rights struggle since the 1960s. Examples of rap tracks addressing these crises abound, but no artist has singularly assumed the mantle of the struggle and become ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Since 2015 began, many police killings have taken place in various parts of the United States. The killings have stirred raw emotions from both Whites and African Americans, given that Blacks were killed at an astronomically disproportionate rate. Notable among the cases in question was the killing of Mike ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There really should never have been much doubt that disgraced comedian Bill Cosby eventually would be charged with a sex related misconduct offense somewhere at some time. In the much discussed unsealed affidavit Cosby swore to in 2005, he confessed to giving drugs to one woman and getting drugs ...