(ThyBlackMan.com) What’s the reason you have for not going for “it” – your most authentic dream? Whatever “it” is in your life or career, most people have a reason it hasn’t happened yet. But if you look behind the reasons, you might just discover they could be reclassified as excuses. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As Black America mourns the death of yet another unarmed Black man we are smiling through our tears. This time, we collectively think – this time we got him on video. This time Michael Slager can’t say, as Darrell Wilson said in Mike Brown’s case, that the victim was ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) …… Recall the story about the cop who cursed out the Uber driver. Turns out the cop has had 12 complaints from the public in his 15 years on the force. The obvious question? What were those complaints? Were they all for just verbal, and not physical, abuse? We ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The tendency of getting higher education abroad gains momentum in leaps and bounds. The benefits of studying abroad are numerous. This is an exciting adventure that allows you not just learn a trade and get diploma, but also to visit a foreign country, learn its language, traditions and meet ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Four years ago Rahm Emmanuel walked away with almost all the black votes in his successful bid to become mayor of Chicago, thanks primarily to support from Barack Obama who could do no wrong in the eyes of many, if not most, black folks. Today Emmanuel has won reelection, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Here we go again with another white police officer killing an unarmed black man. But this time all of it was caught on video and the officer has been charged with murder. Former South Carolina Police Officer Michael Thomas Slager recently shot and killed Walter Lamer Scott, an African ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya Angelou wrote seven autobiographies, five collections of essays, hundred of poems, plays, and screenplays for film and television. Because of all of her writings, her thousands of public speaking engagements and interviews, Maya Angelou was probably the most quotable person in history. With all of this material from ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Full disclosure: I’m fond of baseball. My father is a lifelong baseball fan, and he did an effective job of passing on his love of the game to me. Having said that, Major League Baseball now finds itself at a major crossroads. Baseball’s brand new Commissioner – Rob Manfred ...