(ThyBlackMan.com) As I grow older, I recall with increasing clarity and gratitude the indelible and enduring lessons that I learned from my parents while growing up in the Arkansas Delta. Although my parents had little schooling, they were literate beyond their formal level of education and blessed with an enormous ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In a petition circulated online, change.org minced no words, “NAACP: Hire the First Woman President in the NAACP’s 104-year History.” Seventy percent of the respondents agreed that it was time that the NAACP elected its first permanent woman president in its history to lead the organization. The petition and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first heard that Rev. Marvin Winans (of the gospel-singing Winans klan) refused to receive and Bless a child before his congregation because the child was born out of wedlock, I thought it was just another one of those ridiculous urban legends, because no Black minister could be ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A woman reached out to me on my Facebook page and asked an interesting question.  She asked me if dark-skinned women are “frowned upon.”   I wasn’t sure what to think about the question, but it certainly gave me a moment of pause.  She said that she has a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Yvette Carnell recently wrote an article with the title, “Bloomberg: Blacks Wrongly Believe Obama Made Their Lives Better.“  The article references the fact that many African Americans, because of their deep love and loyalty for President Obama, are typically disconnected from quality-of-life indicators that would determine how effective he ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The relationship game is a difficult one to play and becomes even more difficult when you consider what happens when you lock yourself into situations that are not good for you.  You can find yourself hating your life and wishing that God had created a time machine that allows ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Hardly a week goes by when there is not a tragic story of a teenager committing suicide.  Tragic as these deaths are, there is absolutely no causation between bullying and suicide.  The media’s simplistic and sensational coverage of these teenage deaths are very problematic in this regard. Suicide is ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The GOP controlled House Ways and Means is the first of the three GOP congressional committees “investigating” Obamacare to try and pulverize it–again. GOP committee members pounded hard on the stock GOP hit points; it’s a mess because of a lousy computer system, thousands have gotten sticker shock after ...