(ThyBlackMan.com) Last night, President Obama, our first African American President,  delivered his third State of the Union address. On that same day, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated two gifted African American actresses, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, for Oscars for playing maids in The Help.  ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As we enter the year which will make or break America as we know it, I wish to remind all of you that We Are Family. Together, we took the House, and together we must take the White House. In my travels across our great land, six times on ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I receive a phone call from a friend of mine who teaches elementary school. She told me that she’d spent the week excited about the fact that some college basketball players were coming to her school to eat lunch with the kids. She thought that her inner city students ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Fear. It creeps up on us, often without a sound. It asks, “What if everything goes wrong?” “What if I fail?” “What if I never get what I want?” And disastrous answers to those questions can send us down a path of negative thinking that spirals out of control. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in slavery days, there were hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of brave Black men and women that resisted the exploitation, the abuse and the oppression of wicked slave masters. Those fearless men and women would constantly seek to live their lives as free citizens. They would ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re trying to maintain a healthy diet, but still like to go out to restaurants now and then, eating healthy can sometimes be a challenge. While many restaurants now cater to health-conscious consumers, there are still those that may not. How can the savvy restaurant customer eat well ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Former Alaska Governor and current Fox News contributor Sarah Palin gave her assessment of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul being the “only one” concerned with trying to reduce the federal deficit. Although she did state that she disagrees with Ron Paul’s foreign policy views, the former Republican presidential candidate ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black Patriarchy & Womanism… I was reflecting on two things:  1) Why I identify as Black feminist and womanist, 2) Angie Stone’s song “Brotha”. Womanism as defined by Alice Walker who coined the term can be found here: “A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually. Appreciates and prefers women’s ...