(ThyBlackMan.com) To be in good physical health is your body working in the way that it is supposed to. But how many of us have some aches and pains or illnesses that stop our bodies from working as they should? To start with, we need to think about the factors that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you care about African Americans, there is no way you can overlook the number one killer of African Americans – abortion. Since Roe v. Wade, more unborn, innocent African Americans have been killed from abortion than the combined deaths from police brutality, black on black crime, AIDS and Cancer ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mental illness is a very taboo topic in the inner city community because most of them don’t want to talk about it let alone address the issue. I myself do suffer from mental issues & when I was a kid, I was labeled a “special needs” child because of not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When it comes to seeking help for mental health issues, a lot of people can feel worried about what others might say. Even though there is a lot more public awareness of the issues, it can still feel as though there is a stigma attached to admitting to problems. However, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Earlier this week McDonald’s announced they’d be placing Fitbits in their Happy Meals for kids in an effort to encourage our little ones to exercise, as if apple slices weren’t bad enough. Big mistake! This obsession with fitness is a recipe for disaster if the McDonald’s corporation ever hopes to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something in me that gets all giddy at the thought of learning new and fascinating information. It may explain why there are three open books on my nightstand as I type these words, each in the process of being read. It may explain why, in advance of a visit ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The decision by Aetna to withdraw from many ObamaCare exchanges was a predictable outrage that opens to the door not to the demise of ObamaCare, but the dramatic improvement of ObamaCare led by a grand battle by Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and progressives to enact the public option and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Expenses of Addiction Look, addiction’s expensive. You know this. What’s a pack of smokes, six dollars today? How addicted are you? Do you smoke a pack a day? That’s $42.00 a week, or $168.00 a month. If you go the carton route, it isn’t much cheaper; even rolling tobacco ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The poet T.S. Eliot once said life is risky business and if you aren’t careful, you won’t make it out alive. I am convinced the reason most people haven’t ‘made it out alive’ is because they have lost connection with their dreams. Our dreams give our lives resonance and meaning; ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You may have heard about drones for many reasons. It’s hard to describe a drone perfectly, but the small, flying vehicles are used for a number of reasons. You may have heard about delivery drones, or the scarier stories of military drones. However, it seems some organizations have found a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If it is true that we become what we think about, as Earl Nightingale suggests, the question is what are you thinking about? On average, between 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts flood our brains each day and, according to your mind-set, the majority of those thoughts are either positive or negative. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This fall, millions of kids will return to school to resume their academic careers. Will they go back to school or back to the future? Will they lug backpacks of greatness or bags of low self-esteem? Will we only urge them to get good grades or push them to pursue ...