(ThyBlackMan.com) Football fans younger than the age of 50 most likely never saw John Wooten perform on the field.  A guard who fought many tough battles against the best defensive linemen of his day, Wooten was a member of the 1964 NFL Championship Cleveland Browns team, which featured the great ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently in Clayton County Georgia, Atlanta Pastor Craig Lamar Davis failed to tell a woman that he was HIV positive as they began to indulge in unprotected sex. Ms. Ronita McAfee, one of the most visible “so called victims” stated for her that “it has been an ongoing nightmare, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I got a call today from CNN to discuss the new initiative launched by the White House called “My brother’s keeper.”  From what I’d gathered, the program is one that is designed to create opportunities for men of color, which I certainly appreciate.  I’ll admit that while I agree ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Mr. President, First, I’d like to thank you so much for reaching out to the people and asking us what WE want for a change. That alone is a refreshing change from what we generally see from our government. So you’re already off to a great start in creating ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I think I speak for a lot of normal black people when I say that I sometimes grow tired of the rapper Rick Ross.  Ross has always been a creative, yet relatively useless public figure in the past, but his recent disrespect for the legacy of Trayvon Martin might be ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I was just strollin’ down memory lane, thinking about the old-school hustlers of my youth. They were a lot different than these youngsters who think they’re players and hustlers today. No joggin’ suits and tennis shoes for these brothers, it was Florsheim’s, and very expensive Brooks Bros. suits all the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, has good reason to be upset with her brothers, Dexter and Martin Luther King III.   A judge recently ruled that Bernice must hand over her father’s Nobel Peace Prize and bible as part of a court order.  The ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Our culture is obsessed with beauty. While some women are purchasing an ethnic standard of beauty with fuller lips, larger eyes, and round, full butts; others are running toward the euro-culture standard of long hair, skin lightening, and fat removal.  As women, we cannot afford to fall for standards ...