(ThyBlackMan.com) “…In many ways, spiritual exercise is a lot like physical exercise.  If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while.  But one day you wake up and find everything is sagging in all the wrong places.” – excerpt from A Man ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I  thought about my daughters, who don’t need yet another image, song or slogan that makes them look forward to becoming somebody’s baby’s mama, without giving a second thought to doing the hard work necessary to create a stable and sustainable family structure (we also had long conversations when Fantasia’s Baby Mama ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For a presidential candidate that claims race is meaningless when it comes to his candidacy, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain sure takes great delight in rubbing race in the faces of his white conservative backers every chance he gets. He opened his speech at the recent Republican Leadership Conference ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Give conservatives credit: They have a loud echo chamber. It usually begins with a lie or, at best, a clever distortion, and the rest of the right-wing crowd are immediately off to the races. The most recent example is the assertion that President Obama made the economy worse. That ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The importance of literacy and comprehension is paramount for Black children to be successful academically. Black children must have strong skills in literacy and comprehension to compete in school and life. What good is reading words if you do not understand the meaning of words and cannot apply them ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) According to Dr. Charles Taylor:  “Juneteenth or June 19, 1865, is considered the date when the last slaves in America were freed. Although the rumors of freedom were widespread prior to this, actual emancipation did not come until General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas and issued General Order ...

(ThyBlackMan.com)  ‘Always fresh, honest and often very funny’ Time Out on Hanging by Her Teeth Too often we are told to get rid of contradictions, told that they threaten us, or make us a threat to others.  In this new biography Bonnie Greer gives us an insight into the controversial ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Attorney Barbara Arnwine, leader of the DC based Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is on a mission. She wants to make sure that every citizen has the right to vote. On its face, it seems like a retro mission, since the right to vote has long been ...