(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve never met Lenny McAllister, a former host on WVON 1690 in Chicago.  The only thing I know is that Lenny is a Republican (which I am not), and that WVON was once my favorite radio station in the entire country.  The station, in my mind, has always represented ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP Representative Dough Lamborn from Colorado decided to stir the racial fire in the recent debate over the debt crisis.  In his remarks about President Obama, Rep. Lamborn said that being associated with President Obama is “like touching a tar baby.” Lamborn’s remarks (which are in the audio below) ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I would imagine most of us are familiar with the idea that we are largely products of our environment.  For good or bad, we are influenced by our experiences and mature to either continue in or deviate from what we have learned thus far.  That’s a powerful realization. We ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In a time where job availability is at all-time record lows and people are scrambling to look for work or trying really hard to keep theirs, I felt guiltier than ever for wanting to get out of mine.  Day after day, I’d trudge to and from my job, praying that ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Serious allegations have been made about the conduct of the House Ethics Committee in its case against Los Angeles’ Black Congresswoman Maxine Waters. The House Ethics Committee’s investigation has dragged on more than two years, only proving that “improper conduct” occurred on the part the Ethics Committee itself. The ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I leave you racial dignity. I want Negroes to maintain their human dignity at all costs. Mary McLeod Bethune I recently drove my son to check off campus housing at his college and overheard a  discussion between several young ladies. They were talking about another girl in a matter ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This piece was written three years ago, but the message is a resonating and resounding one that we, as women, should carry with us daily. — Okay, something I plan to do more of this year is WRITE, which makes sense right seeing as though I have a Master’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A new survey at YourBlackWorld.com reveals that black men and women have different perceptions on what it takes to turn a boy into a man.  The survey finds that while most black men do not believe that a woman can raise a boy to be a man without male intervention, ...