(ThyBlackMan.com) Beyoncé Knowles is featured in a new L’Oreal commercial for a foundation system called True Match. In the advertisement, Knowles states, “There’s a story behind my skin. It’s a mosaic of all the faces before it. My only make-up? True Match.” Knowles’ heritage is described in the ad as ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) To be obese is to be overweight, but to be overweight doesn’t necessarily make you obese. A bulky weight trainer, whose muscle mass may take up a high percentage of their weight, could have the same BMI as a dormant couch potato. Tricky right? “What exactly is a BMI?” ...

(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 ...