(ThyBlackMan.com) Curt Flood and Oscar Robertson Must Be Proud… Amid much fanfare, pomp and circumstance, free agent superstar, LeBron James, made his decision. It was a little too much fanfare for some, but you can do that when you’re the game’s best player. And for his age, he is the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) No American minority group has been caricatured as often and in as many ways as blacks. The entertainment media, from vaudeville to television, has portrayed blacks as happy-go-lucky idiots, dangerous thugs, and any definition of a n**ga one could fathom. The industry has degraded the black community for years, simply ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) African-Americans have made extraordinary gains in our society in spite of a history of unfair treatment.  But at this time, African- Americans are facing major problems and issues.  African-Americans are at a loss as to what direction to take to build upon their achievements and move toward full emergence.  The ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Why athletes need to demand a piece of the money they earn… I’ve said it once and I’ll keep on saying it: The NCAA is an incredibly destructive force within the African American community. The league, which professes to offer opportunities to “educate” players, often turns into a pathway ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Last year, our nation was brought to a standstill over an otherwise uneventful confrontation between a police officer and a professor. That professor’s name was Henry Louis Gates Jr. To our surprise, we then watched this non-event become the national spectacle, as the police officer soon learned not to mess ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For at least the past month or so, the theory of  “Black Male Privilege” has been making the rounds from NPR to the more prominent sites in the Black blogosphere. This theory, promulgated by Prof. L’Heureux Lewis represents an extension of the work of Jewel Woods.  There is even a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re Black and Muslim in this country, you’ve been looking over your shoulder at least since September 11th. Historically that’s always been the case. Racists have always considered Muslims the worst threat to business as usual. That’s why recurrent domestic incarnations of the Crusades rear their pointy heads.   ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) grace (n) disposition to or an act or instance of kindness, courtesy or clemency. *Today’s lesson, boys and girls will be all about grace–good manners. Once upon a time, there were manners classes–etiquette if you will.  But now, there are no standards and many of society’s most ignorant boors simply ...