(ThyBlackMan.com) One year later, the Trayvon Martin tragedy still stings — and some people are still throwing salt on the open wound. Last week George Zimmerman’s brother, Robert Zimmerman, posted a tweet comparing Trayvon Martin to De’Marquis Elkins, a 17-year-old black teenager charged with fatally shooting a one-year-old baby. The ...

(ThyBlackMan.com)  Vegetables: is it better to eat them raw, or to roast, steam, or otherwise cook them? There are many benefits to eating produce raw. Raw fruits and vegetables are good choices if you’re trying to lose weight, as they are filled with fiber, which can help you feel fuller ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A set of hearings will take place soon to deal with the impact of concussions on NFL players.  The hearings have very high stakes, with billions of dollars on the line, depending on how they turn out.   As it stands, a total of 4,200 players have sued the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) While it seems that our bodies are pretty solid structures – and they are – at a cellular level they are constantly renewing. You change each blood cell three times a year. You completely turn over the cells of your taste buds every ten days. Even your skeleton renews ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For five hours on August 8, 1944, the young second lieutenant stood nervously before an all-white nine judge military jury panel at Camp (now Fort) Hood, Texas. He faced multiple charges in his court martial proceedings. His only real offense was that he had defied a segregation mandate. While ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama’s proposal to put Medicare and Social Security back on the budget bargaining table ignited a virtual palace revolt among administration loyalists. The flashpoint is the proposal to tie Social Security payments to a chained CPI. The chained CPI which uses the most tight-fisted measure to gauge ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A White coach, curses, bullies, hits and hurls homophobic slurs at his mainly Black basketball team for years. No one says anything until a Black assistant coach brings the matter to light. The offending White coach is given a slap on the wrist. The Black assistant coach is fired. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) his week reminds me of why Martin Luther King, Jr. was in my home town when he met his untimely murder. It was because of the garbage strike, I suspect many folk don’t know about it to even care, or even understand its corollary with today’s US economic crisis. ...