(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama’s job approval rating has risen to 50% for the first time since last summer.  The poll comes right after news that there were 227,000 jobs added to the US economy.  Additionally, the percentage of Americans who disapprove of the job the president is doing has dropped to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Like any other Black man who doesn’t walk around with a gun on his waist, I found myself confused and disturbed by the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was shot by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, 26, last week after an altercation. As the son of a police officer, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I find it vitally important that American’s take a deep look at the terms “black and white.”  It was Dr. King who rightfully noted that a man is to be judged neither by the “content of his character nor by the color of his skin.” Although Dr. King is ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There have been a few successful movements (since the late 90s and early 2000s) in hip hop including the rise of No Limit Records, Bad Boy Records, and now Cash Money. Each one of these movements was considered major points in hip hop history that paralleled the successes of ...

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(ThyBlackMan.com) In regards to higher education, the worst hurdle students of color face is acceptance.  I am not referring to social acceptance from other students, but college admission acceptance. They can barely even make it into a higher education institution, much less an elite and prestigious Ivy League college. In ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Last year I spoke at the penitentiary.  I talked to the guys about entrepreneurship, post prison opportunity and beginning to plan now for when they were released (those that would be) back into society.  After the meeting I was inundated with brothers who had questions and wanted me to come ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I was talking to a very close Sister of mine, and during the course of our conversation, we both felt that it seems among the Sisterhood, we can’t say we love the Black Man  without receiving some sort of backlash from Black Women. In order for our Sisters to love ...