(ThyBlackMan.com) Chaka Khan sang, “Tell me somethin’ good.” The 2014 National Urban League (NUL) report, State of Black America, “One Nation Underemployed; Jobs Rebuild America,” contains a lot of great information, but it will only prove to be “good” if we use it to build a solid and long lasting ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Poor Al Sharpton spent decades building up his name, only to have everything he built torn down overnight. Every news outlet in the country is carrying the story of how Al Sharpton was a government informant. News outlets are calling him “Rev. Rat.” Deciding to flip after being caught ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I heard a child the other day ask his mother why Donald Duck comes out of the shower with a towel on? “Ducks live in the water. Why do they need showers?” she asked. I thought it was insightful, and funny, that a little kid who couldn’t have been ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “It’s amazing I’m in this maze with you/I just can’t crack your code/One day you’re screaming you love me loud/The next day you’re so cold/One day you’re here, one day you’re there, one day you care/You’re so unfair/sipping from your cup/‘Til it runneth over/Holy Grail.” So goes the hook ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the best kept secrets over the past 50 years is that, proportionately, Republicans in Congress supported passage of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act by a much wider margin than Democrats. As CNN.com reported, “The Guardian’s Harry J. Enten broke down the vote, showing that more than 80% of Republicans ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) At this time last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the black unemployment rate was 13.2 per cent and the United States economy created 88,000 new jobs. As we look back at those stats, the economy is now moving in the right direction as the March ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Matthew Knowles, Beyonce’s father and former manager, has dirty laundry that has been all out in the public for years and many are taking different stances in the classic case of an affair gone terribly wrong. In case you haven’t been following the story, Alexsandra Wright is the woman ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Starting on July 16th 1994, and lasting for seven days, twenty fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 were observed crashing into Jupiter, with one extra impact not being seen.  There were three more fragments that were lost tract of, making it twenty-four fragments in all.  My interpretation of the event ...