(ThyBlackMan.com) I spend a lot of time talking about what it takes for black men to be decent. Sometimes, brothers think I am picking on them, but that’s not the case. So, to balance things out, I thought I would take a second to speak about the ladies, although this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What exactly is a mid-life crisis? The term ‘mid-life crisis’ is a purely Western phenomenon used to describe a period in one’s life that is marked by self-doubt, an emerging sense that one has not lived one’s dreams and a tendency to recapture the nostalgia of one’s youth. A ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last night marked the end of the first season of Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta. I’m sure many Black women, young and old, tuned in to watch the final episode of the ratchet fest whether they truly wanted to or not. The episode was promoted to be a big bombshell ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I saw this photo on a friend’s facebook page and I just knew I had to write an article. I hear women talk about how trifling their baby daddy is, but my question is always but… didn’t YOU choose him? I mean what’s worse, the person who supposedly ain’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Oreo Blacks (those idealizing and imitating Europeans) are like little children who–when offered a shiny penny (the “trinket” values of Europeans) and a dusty silver dollar (the ignored treasures of African Tradition)–choose the shiny penny. Hence, by not realizing certain generalities of European culture, they are on the road ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I keep hearing a symphony everywhere I go, and the chorus is always the same “Black Men Ain’t Shyt”. Have you ever considered the fact that if all the Black Men that YOU come across “ain’t shyt”, then maybe….just maybe it’s not them…it’s you? Whenever a female tries to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So last week Kanye West wrote a song about his girlfriend Kim Kardashian called “My Perfect Bitch”. The premise of the song is that he has been in relationships with multiple women, but he found everything he needs in her, thus she is his “perfect bitch.” So how did ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My Story “Wayne, that boy sho need you.” Those words were etched into my spirit by my late father, Charley C. Croomes, Sr. over twenty years ago, speaking of my oldest son, now in his twenties. “I know, dad. I know” was the only conviction I could whisper in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just 7 days ago I had the nerve to question did women win the war on women because seven key provisions of women’s health must be covered by insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act. I surmised in the end the provisions did not signal a decisive victory and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the story broke about Chris Brown, Drake and Meek Mill allegedly fighting over Rihanna, first via “tweets” then in a night club, I read comments on different sites, and most of the women alluded to the fact that she (Rihanna) must have that “good good” in order to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black men we got to do better by our women! Bitch this, hoe that, is all that I hear when it comes to our music, our movies, and our everyday feelings towards our women, and I am just about sick of it. Yes I came up listening to hardcore ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everyone knows what’s going on with HIV and black women. They are also aware that gay black men have the highest instance of HIV in America. One group that experts are failing to address are heterosexual men of color and the role they might play in the spread of ...