(ThyBlackMan.com) A year ago, we thought this date was never going to arrive. It’s the one year anniversary of last year’s “Measuring the Movement” forum, where Rev. Al Sharpton brought together a list of black public figures to produce constructive solutions for problems being faced by the African American community. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans are on the way out. We are out of style, out of line and many of us are out of our minds. And I suggest that we go further out. Until there is nowhere left to go. It’s like learning to swim the hard way. You get ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) On average, the cost of college doubles every nine years according to FinAid.org, a comprehensive source of student financial aid information, advice and tools. To combat tuition inflation families have turned to 529 college savings plans, a state sponsored tax advantaged education savings plan that allows account holders to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) We know what you’re thinking. “What?! Avoid healthy foods?” Yep, you heard us. Now, of course, we don’t mean all healthy foods (as if we’d let you off the hook that easily). Instead, recent studies by food industry experts have targeted a few foods that, while they certainly have ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Florida Rapper touches on some real issues… The fact that family is important is sometimes lost in hip hop. To be honest, a lot of things of substance are not talked about in hip hop or entertainment in general. So understand; I was a little shocked, and pleasantly surprised ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Hussein Obama is an African-American, but not in the traditional sense. His wife is. His children are, but he is not. His father was an African, his mother was an American and this was his paradigm until he reached adulthood. The President was raised by his white ...

(ThyBlackMan.com)  America has become the thing from which its originators fled. The British settlers fled the United Kingdom in search of freedom from a tyrannical monarchy and its division, the Church of England. Those Europeans who came to North America simultaneously fled oppression and inflicted it in their settlement. They ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Many people tend to focus on all health and body challenges that women face in their lifetimes, but the truth is that we all have unique problems that we have to deal with. Sure, women have a lot that they have to cope with, but this is not to ...