(ThyBlackMan.com) They are calling it a budget cut. But let’s be clear: when Congress cuts WIC, it is taking food from pregnant women, babies, toddlers, and young children. WIC is not cash welfare. It is not a giveaway. It is one of the most efficient and humane nutrition programs this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ashley, North Dakota, is a small farming town where the local diet leans hard on sausage, deep-fried chicken and strudel. It has something of a medical center, but the nearest trauma hospital able to handle the most serious injuries is almost four hours away in Fargo. Yet the elders ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One thing I had to learn the hard way is that a brother can be doing everything people asked of him and still not know how to enjoy his own life. That sounds strange until you have lived it. You can get up early, go to work, keep gas in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A healthy home environment is about more than keeping a house clean. The spaces where families spend their time can influence comfort, daily routines, and overall well-being. While no home is perfect, making thoughtful choices about the living environment can help create a space that feels safer, more comfortable, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Family medicine physicians carry one of the broadest clinical mandates in all of medicine. From pediatric care to geriatrics, dermatology to behavioral health, the scope is demanding, and the stakes are high. Yet, between managing patient loads, documentation, and administrative responsibilities, staying current with family medicine Continuing Medical Education ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A quiet kind of exhaustion has settled inside countless Black men across America. You can spot it in tired eyes during long grocery lines, inside forced laughter at family cookouts, or within silence during late night drives home after another draining shift. Plenty of folks assume toughness means somebody ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most frustrating aspects of contemporary conversations about politics and public policy is how often the deleterious effects of terrible programs — local, state and federal — are brushed aside with distracting (and even deceitful) claims that the intentions behind the policies were “compassionate.” This is an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The brutality of the NFL is evident every NFL season. No professional sport has the injury risk that NFL players face and the collisions and force that players make with each other both thrills the fans but takes a toll on the players themselves. In recent years, the National ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every summer I notice the same thing happening. Parks fill up. Basketball courts get louder. Brothers start jogging through neighborhoods again. Gyms stay packed later into the evening. You can almost feel people trying to shake stress off physically. As an Older fella, I understand exactly why that happens. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Trump has rightly earned his place as the most consequential pro-life president in modern American history. From his transformative judicial appointments, including three Supreme Court justices who made the overturning of Roe v. Wade possible, to his reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy and his defunding of abortion providers through Title X, he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some days a man can sit alone in complete silence and still feel pressure all around him. Bills waiting. Work draining him. Children needing his attention. Expectations coming from every direction. Then somewhere during those long nights, thoughts start creeping into his head that he never says out loud. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I been noticing something shift over these past few years, and it is not small. You go into a gym now, or even a park on a Saturday morning, and you see more Black men moving together. Not just lifting side by side, but really locked in. Talking, pushing, ...