(ThyBlackMan.com) When I was a child, I would beg my mother to drop me off at the library. I didn’t really want her to go with me because for me, the world of books was an adventure. There was no telling what I might find on the next shelf! I ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A recent Rasmussen poll found that more Americans by a wide margin think blacks are more racist than whites. This also included a significant percent of blacks who according to Rasmussen said that they consider more blacks racist than whites or Hispanics. The poll was sloughed off, mocked, and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not sure of the status of the relationship between the rapper Ice Cube and his fellow icon, Oprah Winfrey.  The last I heard, the two didn’t exactly see eye-to-eye.  But then again, Oprah has built a bridge with a fellow gangsta rapper, 50 Cent, showing me that she ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Two weeks into the George Zimmerman trial the debate has intensified over whether Florida state prosecutor Angela “tough on Crime” Corey and her team is helping or hurting their case against Zimmerman with their witnesses. The string of witnesses has offered a mixed bag of both damning and corroborative ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) During his trip to South Africa, President Obama graciously and reverentially praised Nelson Mandela as a leader who inspired people around the world and that included himself. This was more than just praise for one of the planet’s most respected leaders, the man Obama called by his traditional tribal ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In our age of political correctness and “sensitivity” there is an interesting double standard that has emerged in our society in regard to being overweight versus being homosexual.   In spite of the large number of scientific studies that link obesity to genetic and environmental factors, society as a whole ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1852, Frederick Douglass spoke of America’s hypocrisy when dealing with the issue of slavery. He mused: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black students are learning the competition for jobs, internships, scholarships, grants and fellowships is fierce and competitive.  Teaching Black students how to use all the available tools of Social Media is necessary to Market and Brand themselves to get the attention of organizations, businesses, schools and individuals looking to ...