(ThyBlackMan.com) In a recent Your Black World survey, the majority of African American respondents (56.9 percent) believe that President Barack Obama should have spoken on behalf of Troy Davis before his execution last week. Davis was put to death after a pile of questionable evidence emerged over the years showing that there is a very ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, we released the results of a Your Black World Survey, in which it was determined that the majority of black respondents (56.9 percent) felt that President Obama should have spoken up on behalf of the late Troy Davis. Many throughout the world, including former FBI Director William Sessions and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain’s wipe out of the GOP presidential field in the Florida straw poll got much attention partly because he was so far behind presumptive GOP Presidential front runners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. But it also got attention because it seemed to refute the relentless ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This past week Troy Davis was executed in the state of Georgia. The event was both preceded and followed with loquacious disdain and vehement sadness. Georgia as a state has a history of disparities in executions when the defendant is an African American and the victim is white. That ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I was asked to write about DeAndre Cortez Way–aka- Soulja Boy. Something about the young rapper intrigued me, and I wanted to know why people disliked him so much after taking the assignment. I had to have some type of reference to make sense of this young man’s success ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I listened to the GOP Presidential debates last night on Fox News. Of course, my #1 issue is always education. And of course these GOP candidates continue to use 30-year old solutions in a 21st century world. How many candidates say they would abolish the U.S. Department of Education? ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Remember a scant few weeks ago when Indiana Congressman Andre Carson continued his ‘rant’ against the Tea Party, calling them–in short–a bunch of racists who wanted to lynch Black folks.  His tirade may have been one of the sparks that started the Florida fire which led to Herman Cain’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In January 1992 in a column written for the inaugural issue of publisher Ray Boone’s Richmond Free Press, I listed eleven wishes for Black people in the upcoming year. Regrettably those wishes are still unfilled in 2011. Here are my wishes: • That we as a people stop trying ...