(ThyBlackMan.com) When I wrote In a Puff of Smoke, I confessed a contemptuous intolerance for Sean “P. Diddy/Puff Daddy” Combs.  Such contempt, I’ve come to realize, is incorrect according to the love of Christ that I claim to abide by. Taking it a step further, I must admit that I’ve ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” according to Michelle Alexander, a law professor at The Ohio State University.  Alexander is the author of an interesting new book called “The New Jim Crow:  ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black men can be very meticulous when it comes to their dress and appearance. Nice haircut, clean shoes and a nicely tailored suit are essentials for most, but when it comes to skin care, they don’t seem to be as particular. They wash their face, they shave and they ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The decision to elevate the assault on Libya and its leader, Moammar Gadhafi, has some very chilling forecasts for normalizing relations with Muslims in America. Libya is involved in a civil war for which no vital American interests are at stake. Libya only controls two percent of the world’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In the last few weeks in particular, American foreign policy has never looked worse. To describe it as the “Keystone Cops of Diplomacy and War-Making” would be too charitable. The fault lies not just with President Barack Hussein Obama, our obsessively pro-Arab and pro-Muslim president, or Secretary of State ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I gave a speech at a church in upstate New York shortly after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.  During the service, the choir director took the liberty of changing the words from the song “We shall overcome,” to “We HAVE overcome.”  I also remember hearing ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Disease is never fair. But, for African-American men in the U.S., prostate cancer can be downright cruel. While 1 out of 6 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime and more than 218,000 die from it annually, black men are 60 percent more likely to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich didn’t stop at blasting President Obama on his Libya war policy recently in a meeting of ultra-liberal Congressional Democrats. He practically invited Congress to consider an impeachment discussion of Obama. Kucinich didn’t even stop there. He rammed the impeachment point home further in a follow-up ...