(ThyBlackMan.com) With the killing of Osama Bin Laden, a collective sigh of relief can be heard from the Black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Detroit to the Muslim communities of Harlem and downtown Manhattan – not necessarily because a terrorist attack was feared in these locales – but rather because ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Cold, rainy, snowy days bring on the blues in many of us. Along with the blues sometimes comes an insatiable appetite for comfort foods that usually don’t even begin to help improve our moods. The foods we crave are usually loaded with carbohydrates, sugar, and fat and tend to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) On August 28, 2008 Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president exactly 45 years to the day from Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. The Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement ended exactly 100 years apart, in 1865 and 1965 respectively. The most important speech ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But it shouldn’t. Of the one billion Roman Catholics in the world today, at least 20% (200 million) are Black. Africa alone has 130 million Black Catholics. In fact, the largest Catholic Church building in the world is found in Africa, the cathedral ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There are more than 200,000 women who are currently incarcerated, 115,000 in federal or state prisons and 99,000 in local jails.  Nearly one million women are on probation – representing 26 percent of those on probation and 98,000 are on parole.  Women’s incarceration has grown by more than 800 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It seems that some Black people have suddenly become one issue voters.  I’ve been voting for a lot of years, and I have seen Black people vote for the lesser of two evils without complaining.  I’m from Louisiana, so much of my life the lesser of two evils was ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There are a variety of verses in the Bible that seem to command us to avoid fallen or backslidden Christians. Yet one verse in particular, Galatians 6:1, commands us to restore fallen Christians. What are we to do? 1 CORINTHIANS 5:11 1 Corinthians 5:11 – But now I have ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many perspectives on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Perspectives about which we continue to explore, write and speak. Pastor of the people, Philosopher of non-violence, Ph.D. in theology, Peacemaker of Nobel Prize quality, Protester of racial injustice, Councilor to Presidents and a Promoter of ...