(ThyBlackMan.com) Are you there for your kids? Really there? Or are you just going through the motions? I want to share with you how dads—even divorced dads—can establish a “consistent presence” in their children’s lives. For too many fathers, home is where they eat, sleep, and do their best to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Donald, the presidency and businessman Herman Cain… Seems that all America’s Black Ladies’ Clubs have banned together to “boycott Donald Trump until he admits that President Obama was born in the U.S.” Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” television show, his casinos, office buildings, and hotels, have been put in economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Osama bin Laden has been captured and killed. This information shot across my computer screen while I was working on transcribing a recent interview. At first I thought, okaaay, this is some kind of spam or joke. But when the following message indicated that the President would be addressing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’ve given “an Abe” for cannabis, cocaine or meth, then you are one too. Those five bucks joined a stream of money fostering the world’s illegal drug trade; the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substances subject to drug prohibition laws are estimated to be a $40 trillion ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a college professor for the past 18 years, I’ve noticed two things about college: It can be a place to make your dreams come true, and it can also be a breeding ground for your worst nightmares. So, I thought I would compile a list of things that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recall the story of the Tower of Babel, the mighty edifice our ancestors built to reach up to heaven so that they could know God? Look now at the Ivory Tower that is the university, and how it has the audacity to claim that it can ultimately know everything. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s one sentence that men never want to hear from a woman, it’s four words that hit you square in the gut, “Let’s just be friends”. Understand that we have friends, don’t need new ones, men don’t pick up new friends along the way all willy nilly. We’ve had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I returned home after another long day anticipating a good meal and then a few hours of R & R in front of the TV. But when I opened the door, evidence to the contrary was obvious: a pink coat, a small, glittery shoe, and then a shriek of ...