(ThyBlackMan.com) I was born to a 17-year old single mother in a housing project in Louisville, Ky. I struggled through elementary, middle and high school. In fact, I rarely met a school book that I didn’t hate. I was, in the words of Forbes Magazine columnist Gene Marks, a “poor ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) *If you can read this line: Thank a teacher! In a perfect world all teachers would be dedicated to their profession, keep long school hours, be involved with community endeavors unrelated to school events and basically be concerned with the welfare of their students. The good news is; that ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Six months ago, I returned home to discover a family had moved into my backyard storage shed. Displaying an incredible sense of entitlement and off the chain arrogance, the family refused to leave, arguing they were simply seeking a better life. Adding insult to injury, their TV, computers and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) 2012 is now coming to an end.  Many of us have lined up our resolutions for the start of the New Year.  We have plans, agendas and good intentions to make positive changes.  They may consist of improving our finances, losing weight, becoming debt free, going to church, finding ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) What do you get when you combine an already successful makeup artist business with a successful photography establishment?  Lash To Lens. Lash to Lens is the brainchild of makeup artist Charlene Armstrong and photographer Kesha Lambert. Introduced by Charlene’s husband, the ladies started working with each other when they ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) What do you believe in? Nothing is certain. Science tells us that there is no thing at all that we can be absolutely certain is true. Nonetheless, there are things that each of us believes, to a certainty, are true. What fills that bill for you? The belief in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Thank you First Lady for staying true to yourself and remaining focused on your goals of health and fitness for both children and adults. You are a shining example of courage and the beauty that illuminates from you is a positive role model not only for black women, but ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In his latest attempt to deflect criticism for racially insensitive newsletters written in the first person and signed with his name in the 1980s and ’90s, Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul now says, “only eight to ten sentences were offensive.” While Paul wants the public to know that he ...