(ThyBlackMan.com) A report has been released at Meharry Medical College School of Medicine about the devastating impact that mass incarceration has on our society.  The study, published in Frontiers in Psychology, is one of the most thorough examinations of the impact that mass incarceration has on the African American community.  The study’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve done a lot of work with various media outlets over the years, but it has left me relatively unsatisfied.   The reason for my concern is that, as a business school professor, I tend to notice ownership structure, incentives and the role that capitalist organizations have played in the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Pick up any given women’s magazine, and you will find something that has been enduring: Information about men. The problem is that much of that information comes from women. Typically, the magazines provide lists that women should follow in order to measure the worth of potential male mates. Those ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) History was made yet again. Yes Black America we have a black President four more years, but what does that really mean? Did we go to the polls simply because he was black, or because he was capable? If the Republicans had presented a stronger campaign would they have ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) One thing that Sean Hannity does well is whine, whine, whine.  He has tried as hard as he can to stop the country from moving forward, putting rhetoric on national television that some think would be a better fit for a klan rally. According to the Daily Currant, Chicago mayor ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This past Sunday on Meet the Press, the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said the following, “Latinos, women and young people — that is the new governing coalition.” OUCH. To be sure, there are Black folk in each of those categories. But since President Obama’s victory on Election Day, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It was hardly a surprise that Obama received 95% of the Black vote, or that he garnered 71% of Latino support, but 75% of the Asian vote! I thought they were supposed to be the “ideal minority,” the backhanded compliment that politicians, the media and demographers label Asian Americans with. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) So recently on Twitter, Amber Rose said that she “loves it when Wiz calls her his baby mama because it makes her feel ratchet and she likes it.” One of the definitions of the word ratchet according to the Urban Dictionary is: (adjective) a term for someone that is ...