(ThyBlackMan.com) If there was ever any lingering doubt that Republicans favor the rich over poor and middle-class Americans, it should be removed by the GOP’s opposition to President Obama’s proposal to extend the payroll tax cut for another year. Let’s face it: Republicans oppose almost everything advocated by the nation’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Labor leaders, the Congressional Black Caucus, and many liberal Democrats hope Vice President Joe Biden is wrong. In an interview on the eve of President Obama’s much anticipated jobs proposals speech, Biden seemed to dash hopes that Obama will go big, and aggressive in promoting a jobs-for-all program. To ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For parents across the country, the end of summer marks much more than cooler weather and light jackets. As you begin to trade long summer days for cool fall mornings, the biggest thing on your mind is the new school year. As you make this transition, you are being ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not kidding and this is no joke. There is a new and often violent crime wave sweeping the country where thieves are robbing beauty supplies and stylist salons for human hair weave and extensions. At least one man has been murdered in Michigan when thieves stole packages of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The next time they screen movies at the White House, they should run a double feature of “Rocky III” and “The Lion King.”  These two films could both challenge and inspire President Obama as he labors against his entrenched, uncompromising conservative opponents. One of the better entries in Sylvester ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Considering the fact that Black people are so entrenched in the distractions of this world, I think it’s appropriate that I beg your pardon, Black America, in order to get a few important points across. Although for 16 years now I have sounded the economic alarm via this newspaper ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Pseudofolliculitis barbae, better known to us brothas as, “razor bumps“, occur on the faces of men with coarse, wiry, curly hair. Between fifty and eighty percent of African-American men live with the problem of ingrown hairs and razor bumps, daily. These razor bumps appear when beard hairs, most likely ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Is your fight with obesity genetically programmed? Or are you predisposed to an aggressive cookie addiction? It’s easy to blame obesity on laziness or overeating, but is there really something more to it? Genes, hormonal imbalances, and even viruses are now acknowledged to play a role in obesity. Eating ...