(ThyBlackMan.com) Tyrese is a ladies’ man and has two Grammys to prove why he can get them where they need to be–just at the right time musically. On his new album, “Open Invitation” the soulful crooner shows the world why he has stayed on top since joining the music industry ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It has been awhile since a rapper has risen to the top of the trap music food via a solo outing chain since 50 Cent was running the mixtape game in 2002-03. 2011 we have seen the rise of 2 Chainz, aka Tity Boi from Playaz Circle, and, quite ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Depending upon your source for news, you may or may not have heard the story about Rachelle Grimmer, the 38-yr-old mother of two who shot her children and committed suicide after a seven-hour standoff with authorities in a Laredo, Texas welfare office. Both children have died because of the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For many Black people in this country part of the Black experience is catching up to your White peers. If you’re a child of the inner city or of a working to once upon a time “Middle Class” family you were raised in a way where your parents made ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Rap began as genre of music to not only to express happiness and fun and partying but also a genre of music to express anguish, strife, and struggle. The genre in its truest form is either loved for telling the truth or derided for over-exaggerating conditions some don’t want ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As an undergraduate I wrote a senior thesis entitled “The Myth of the Black Quarterback,” where-in I concluded that Black athletes, and specifically Black quarterbacks, have constantly had to fight with the racial “demons” of the past. Namely, their success has often fallen victim to the struggle to transcend ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Christmas has come early: Herman Cain is no longer pretending to run for president. It is for that reason that he has selected BET to air his final interview. A curious decision considering that throughout his campaign, Herman Cain had deliberately avoided any association with African-Americans or the political ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) William “Reds” Brawner was apparently a hot commodity on the Howard University campus.  As a student who graduated from the university in 2006, Brawner had a long list of female friends, many of whom were willing to do whatever he wanted at the drop of a hat. One thing ...