(ThyBlackMan.com) “Brother” Cornel West, .Your explanation for your comment that President Obama is a “Rockefeller Republican in blackface” is as lame and disingenuous a cop out as I’ve ever heard. You claimed that your critics are trivializing your comment by not getting to the core of your assertion, which was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ideally, three quarters of our plate should be filled with fruits and plants. But these days, vegetables take a backseat to meat. The average American eats almost 300 lbs of meat a year! When meat is the center of the meal, it’s easy to lose focus on the other ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently traveled to New York for a panel on black male fatherhood, hosted by former NBA player Etan Thomas. The panel consisted of other great athletes, including former NY Knick Allan Houston, Billy Hunter (Executive Director of the NBA Player’s Association), Chris Broussard from ESPN and several others. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An argument followed by deadly gunshots. The victim – 22 year old Kasandra Perkins – murdered by her 25 year-old boyfriend Jovan Belcher. Approximately 15 minutes following the 7:50 a.m. shooting came yet another round of gunfire from Jovan; that single shot resulted in Jovan succumbing to the same ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The radical right came after NBC Sportscaster Bob Costas, as he spoke in support of comments made by an African-American sportswriter, Jason Whitlock, as they also did yours truly. We had expressed discontent with the gun violence that has run amok in the cities of urban America. The death ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Loving yourself is paramount, no matter what shape, size or color you are. I call it being flawsome: you + your flaws + awesome = flawsome.” These are the words from the great Tyra Banks, who is set to grace the cover of Cosmopolitan South Africa next month. Tyra ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The murder-suicide involving Jovan Belcher of the Kansas City Chiefs was, without question, a tragedy among tragedies. I feel terrible for this family and as a father myself, I wish that Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kassandra Perkins, had sought the help they needed to survive such a terrible ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The first music video ever played on MTV predicted the next 30 years of American popular music. If you don’t have hot a music video in rotation now, you can’t exist as a mainstream artist in hip-hop or any other popular genre. This you already know. And it will ...