(ThyBlackMan.com) The film For Our Sons takes as its subject the plight of all newly born and even unborn young Black children in America. The story centers on the horrendous statistic that in the United States of America, 1 out of every 3 mostly fatherless Black boys born between 2000 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Why now’s the time for him to be about it, instead of talking about it. Let me see if I have this straight: talk show host Tavis Smiley blasted Rev. Al Sharpton and other black leaders because they’re not pressing President Obama to promote a black agenda? Yeah, that would ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The undeniable fact is that President Obama has gotten a racial pass from blacks. This tormenting fact ignited brief finger pointing between the Reverend Al Sharpton and talk show host Tavis Smiley. It’s hardly the first time that blacks publicly and more often privately have wrung their hands over Obama’s ...

 (ThyBlackMan.com) On Feb. 23, ABC News showed a billboard with an African-American child, with a caption on it saying “Endangered Species.” I was gob smacked, to say the least. Some women talked with a commentator expressing disdain for this billboard, as I thought also. This billboard was put up showing ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The new political article of faith is that tea baggers are blatant or closet racists. MSNBC’s Keith Olberman, Meghan McCain, and Captain Marvel Comics Captain America and his black sidekick Falcon, are the latest to poke fun at and pick a fight with the tea baggers over their alleged serial ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Apparently passing legislation has now become as difficult as a military operation – as President Obama will announce a “way forward” on health care reform later this week. What this most likely means is that he will support the use of reconciliation (the political buzz word of the week) in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) At some point during this Bush-Obama non-economy I just went on automatic pilot, like many others. Friends tease me about being a survivalist but it was just dress rehearsal for this calamity. While always knowing how empty rhetoric about opportunity and  prosperity was in zip codes like mine, when the door slams ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black superheroism is an “ism” I’ve practiced alongside many others. My brand is costume optional but focuses on exceptional characters and cultures within the Diaspora. Icons like Toussaint L’Ouverture and Paul Robeson join generational standards like “being twice as good to get half as much” and “give a brother ...