(ThyBlackMan.com) “Ugly is what ugly does,” that what my grandmother used to tell me. It was one of the many philosophical idioms she used to instruct me throughout my life as I was growing up as a child. Over the years I started to understand what she meant. I take ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It doesn’t pay to talk too much! I’m sure Roland Martin is feeling that now. Sure I can’t even follow him on twitter because he talks….well tweets too much. But I’m still outraged at the nature of the suspension. As I hear Roland Martin was suspended from CNN for ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For about two decades now, Denzel Washington has been one of the most charismatic and popular A-list superstars in movies. He’s been that rare movie star unblemished by scandal and broadly respected by filmmakers and audiences. For the most part, he has played a prototypical hero but lately, like ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I am going to tell you now; your daddy ain’t shyt. I need to put that in your head right away.  He wouldn’t marry me, and I thought by getting myself pregnant, that would make him commit to me, but he still didn’t.  He left me, now all I ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) While diabetes and prediabetes occur in people of all ages and races, some groups have a higher risk for developing the disease than others. Diabetes is more common in African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, as well as the aged population. This means they are also ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In a recent article in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Professor Cornel West “went HAM” on Tulane University Professor Melissa Harris-Perry. In what might be his strongest public comments yet, Cornel West referred to Harris-Perry as a “fake” and a “fraud” for allowing herself to be used by the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Do I lose my Black card if I say I’m over Black History Month. If so you can have it because the month of February being dedicated to Black history is a noble occurrence I know longer agree with. One week into Black History Month and we’ve already got the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Before you side eye me to hell no this is not one of those let’s bash the First Lady posts. This is not one of those race baiting posts about the First Lady that GOP talking heads like to make into mountains. And this is not one of those ...