(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you eat breakfast today? If your answer is yes—good job!—you’ve already done something great for both your health and your waistline. Studies show that those who eat breakfast eat fewer calories and less saturated fat throughout the day, as opposed to those who skip that morning meal. Breakfast ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many choose to forgive (based on Biblical precepts) because forgiveness has benefits for the forgiver. Forgiveness is a canceling of a “debt”. One can choose to forgive so that anger doesn’t destroy one’s own sense of well-being, though this may require a grieving process. To forgive is to release ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Conflict occurs when two people with opposing points of view try to convince the other that they are right. Or wrong. It’s a given that proper communication is key to strengthening intimacy and trust between each other. However, lack of communication may create mistrust and weaken the bonds of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was proud to watch Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel last week, as Gumbel decided to dig into the issue of college athlete compensation. Securing the labor rights of college athletes has been a passion of mine for quite some time, and I was excited that 2011 provided a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Expert Traces Groundbreaking Murphy Routine Back to Tribal Culture… On the streets of Brooklyn, Harlem, Watts and Compton, they called it “the dozens.” It was the tradition of hanging out with your friends and hitting them not with punches, but punch lines. Kids would gather and hurl insults, tell ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The first time Mo’Kelly heard Jacob Lusk sing, it wasn’t on TV. It was singing together in the tenor section at the Congregational Church of Christian Fellowship here in Los Angeles. He was just as genuine, full of smiles and singing talent then as he is now. So can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today I mentioned to a friend that I was looking forward to analyzing the report on the State of Black America issued by the Urban League every year. The person responded to my comment with an interesting question. He said, “Do these gatherings actually lead to action or is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “He aint gonna do nothin’ but two-hand it.”—a childhood friend, sitting next to me watching a Seventy-Sixer game, said that as we watched Dr. J steal a pass and head up the court with the ball many years ago. I’ll get back to that quote later. As a teenager, ...