(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the last decade the prevalence of HIV infection in the United States has reached new highs and now rivals the numbers we see in sub-saharan Africa. According to Wafaa M. El-Sadr,  director of the International Center for Aids Care and Treatment at Columbia University, more than half a million ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Community policing is supposed to be an alternative to the ” Lock up every Negro in sight! ” pathology afflicting American law enforcement. In a modern era where even a sitting ” post racial ” US president can ( correctly ) call arresting a wealthy, liberal, Ivy League-employed Black man in his home ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Tiger’s return to golf this week at the Masters is a uniquely American story… Tiger Woods is America. Rich beyond imagining. Ungovernable. Loved. Hated. Brilliant. Witless. Two-faced. Wanton. Thoughtless. Gifted. Smug. Pious. Addicted. Insatiable. Unfaithful. Courageous. Deluded. Craven. Devoted. Lonely. Weak. Strong. A model. Adrift. The sole remaining superpower ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I never liked music until I heard hip hop. I never really liked hip hop until I heard NWA. Call me a thug, a hoodlum, or a dangerous black man, but as an 18-year old teenager, the chronic coming out of those speakers took my breath away. Ice Cube was ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Even though some of the messengers are black, questionable rhetoric will continue to keep folks away, says this conservative columnist… Even though some of the messengers are black, questionable rhetoric will continue to keep folks away, says this conservative columnist. It took one word for the point to hit ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A new generation of ‘appbooks’ has the potential to transform how we learn… Lost in all the hubbub about the new iPad is a simple truth: the iPad will be the first successful mass-market tablet computer. While every other attempt to make a popular flat computer has fallen flat, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) WASHINGTON (AP) — He may be the world’s foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama gave only one answer to the question about his ethnic background: African-American. The White House confirmed on Friday that Obama did not check multiple boxes on ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve always had a problem with Tyler Perry. Not the man, mind you – he’s always seemed like a fairly generous, warm-hearted guy – but the “performer.” I say performer instead of artist or talent because I don’t believe he is either of those. He performs. He is theatrical in ...