(ThyBlackMan.com) First came slavery. When it ended there was a brief period in the sun called Reconstruction, followed by the long dark night of the Jim Crow Laws and legalized segregation in which we were forced into  second class status, and now comes the New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Like Miss Scarlett secretly pining for her Black buck on the plantation, Miss Ann (Coulter that is) quickly defended her stallion Herman Cain from those jealous liberals who in her antebellum mind fear “a strong Black conservative man.” In one of those bizarre “did she really say that?” moments, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) If you go on twitter, it is not hard to see what the average African American considers as being important and worthy of incessant attention. For that matter, you can also conclude why our community is in the state of disarray it is. Our main problem is not being ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A big congrats is in order to Tyler Perry as he earned the title of being the highest paid man in entertainment by Forbes! From May 2010 to May 2011, he earned $130 million. His success is well warranted because he handles his business in a wealthy-elite fashion by ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Major wireless (cell phone) corporations should be conscious of the fact that much of their business and future depends heavily on the African American community. Fortunately, Verizon and AT&T understand this and are heavily involved in our community. T-Mobile will become much better, if the merger with AT&T takes ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) How many times have you heard that the War on Drugs is just a cover for a sustained attack on our community that ferociously gobbles up our youth into the rapidly expanding prison industrial complex? Perhaps you think this a gross exaggeration. It is not. Here is the proof. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When an unplanned pregnancy occurs, sometimes both parents feel that they are unprepared for parenthood.  In this case both may agree to give up their rights to raise a child and choose adoption as an alternative.   In most cases when this does occur, the acknowledgement of both parents is ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When a then 17 year-old Rihanna scored a hit song with 2005’s “Pon De Replay,” no one could have predicted the course the young singer’s career would take. Upon releasing her first number one single, 2006’s “SOS” from the album A Girl Like Me, she wasn’t regarded as much ...