(ThyBlackMan.com) Is there a systematic assault on Black marriage? Seemingly every week a new poll, study or blog reports disheartening statistics and commentary on the abhorrent conditions of Black men and Black women in the United States, adding fuel to the often fiery discussion of male-female relationships and its effect ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Speak in tense to we, us… Fear is such a powerful instrument that can be used to hold us back. Fear is an emotion that can literally grab a hold of a person leaving him or her feeling helpless, venerable and stagnate. Even after convincing ourselves that you can ...
(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? ...