(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) eclecticalexandria: i’m tired of reading, seeing, and hearing lectures and panels of men sharing their opinion of why women are single and how women should portray themselves in society. true womanhood cannot and never will be defined by a man. This may be old news to some folks but I’mma ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Further revelations about the SAT cheating scandal that emerged in September and has now ensnared at least 40 former high school students from Long Island, New York, in addition to the original 5 suspects charged with accepting payments between $500 to $3600 to take SAT and ACT exams for ...