(ThyBlackMan.com) Essence Magazine used to be the preeminent magazine for Black women in the U.S.  They, like many Black publications, have lost their relevance; and in the process become an embarrassment to the very group they claim to target. Essence was founded in 1968 by Ed Lewis, Clarence Smith, Cecil ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Race baiting, headline chasing Princeton Professor Cornel West set off a firestorm of outrage among Obama supporters and defenders of hope and change, when he said Obama wasn’t culturally black.  West suggested because Obama is more “a white man with black skin,”  his policies have done nothing to help poor ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My Dear Sisters, Over the past week or so I’ve read many tweets, Facebook postings, blog rants, and online petitions in response to Psychology Today’s posting of a ‘scientific’ study – “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women” by Satoshi Kanazawa. The reaction to Kanazawa’s armchair ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The first place to end poverty is in your own mindset. If you believe that you are supposed to live in an unending state of poverty and hopelessness, then that is exactly where you will continue to find yourself. It is, therefore, refreshing to witness President Barack Obama and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The name “Herman Cain” and the words “GOP presidential nominee” is a pitiable oxymoron. But the irrepressible talk show host and former Godfather Pizza CEO still thinks that he can stand the GOP on its head and get it to nominate him, an African-American, as its 2012 presidential standard ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A couple days ago, I was reading an article on ESPN talking about Donovan McNabb. For those of you who don’t know, he’s the ex QB of the Philadelphia Eagles and, as it appears, also the ex-QB for the Washington Redskins after being traded there last year. The article ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Rehabilitation of unsuccessful Black families begins with any Black person who possesses enough insight to start rehabilitating his own family, nuclear or extended. Each mature Black individual must make a commitment to love and care about others in their own family in faith and without making excuses. Forgiving is ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) PRINCETON professor Cornel West has been embroiled in a controversy with President Obama over the past two weeks after calling him a “black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats,” and criticizing his handling of black unemployment and lack of race-specific social policies. Implicit ...