(ThyBlackMan.com) Many, if not most, African Americans are believed to be of partial Native American ancestry. William Loren Katz in Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage explored the roots of this Black and Native American admixture. Black contact with Native Americans goes back long before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth. In ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Council of Fashion Designers of America, issued a statement declaring, “the most powerful message is one of diversity.”  Yet, year after year the amount of black models showcased in editorials continues to remain alarmingly low.  So why should it matter that black models are absent in editorials and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you have a hard time leaving work at work? Is your to-do list so long that it is never possible to finish everything you set out to do in a day? I have always loved this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:   “Finish each day and be done with ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) To say their names in one sentence, together, is like committing an act of auto-lingual arousal. These two women have helped to cement a redefinition of beauty that boldly steps away from an otherwise bland field of homogenous features that all seem to glorify a very small global ethnic ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn, aka “Future,” is the rapper who misled himself into believing that he’d be marrying the singer Ciara (aka Ciara Princess Harris).  To be honest, I knew that the relationship would probably last about as long as Future’s career, which is set to come to an end any day ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When it was announced that Apple was acquiring Beats for $3 Billion, the hip hop blogosphere exploded with talks of Dre being hip hop’s first billionaire. Being the nerd that I am and having followed the acquisitions of tech companies like Instagram and Whatsapp, I understood that there were ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, Fredro Starr made an appearance on Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club” and got into a heated debacle with the infamous show’s star and primary celeb antagonist, Charlamagne Tha God. Apparently, Charlamagne referred to a time Starr spoke and said he received fellatio from R&B singer Brandy (he ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) On August 5 of this year the world champion San Antonio Spurs’ head coach Greg Popovich signed an assistant coach. No big deal right? The new hire was a 16 year vet of the professional game having played domestically and overseas in Spain and Russia. Sounds like a very ...