(ThyBlackMan.com) This coming Sunday marks the celebration of Father’s Day for many around the nation. My son and I have made a big mess constructing an arts and craft thingy for his dad. I love seeing those two interact together, it warms my heart and I feel blessed to have ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) While the media’s attention is embroiled in the seemingly endless Rep. Weiner scandal, the landscape of American democracy is changing in the most troubling and systematic ways imaginable. After years of suffering under the atrocious Jim Crow laws of ‘separate but equal,’ the people rallied behind those that were ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Co-authored by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. 40 years ago today, President Richard Milhous Nixon declared America’s “War on Drugs.” This failed war continues even today to have a devastating and debilitating impact on the lives of millions of Americans. We add our voices to the growing number of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As an African-American, there is not a single day that I don’t turn on my television and/or radio and personally witness racism against African-Americans.  The United States Department of Justice, The Republican Party, its media wing Fox News, and conservative talk radio in combination are a functioning terrorist organization. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Between 2004 and 2007 I was a spokesperson and liaison for minority media at the Republican National Committee, and I routinely fielded questions from black journalists about what the Bush White House and Republicans were going to do about the “alarmingly high” 9% unemployment rate for African-Americans. People were ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I really had no idea of what to write about when thinking about the celebration of Father’s Day. I never knew my father. I was two years old when he was killed in my grandmother’s front yard. I was told, when I was old enough to digest the information ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I am a proud graduate of Morehouse College. I am among a distinguished group of alumni who include Martin Luther King, Jr., Edwin Moses, Spike Lee, Samuel Jackson, Maynard Jackson and current Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain. It is unfortunately, most African Americans will not give Cain any objective ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Studies show that if your goals and dreams have many if not all these criterion, they are more likely to be accomplished and become real. 1. Your goals need to be measurable. It’s not enough to say, “I will write more.” It’s much better if you can state, “I ...