(ThyBlackMan.com) A couple of months ago, I saw a picture that really disturbed me. It was a picture of a Sister that had a tattoo on her chest, and the tattoo was that of a specific part of the male anatomy and she boasted about a certain “skill set.” I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is Black Manhood Slowly Being Redefined Right Up Under Our Noses? …….or am I just some kind of romantic relic of a long gone time stuck in the past that will never ever return again? Or maybe I’m right on point with my observation speaking for those who are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last season, Washington Redskins’ tackle Trent Williams was accused of directing use of the N-word toward a referee during a nationally-televised game. His action is just one of the many instances that the term tends to be thrown around freely in the face of self-respecting Black/African-American sports fans and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Amid the noise of the modern media, sometimes you have to listen for the silences to understand what is actually being said. This is a good way to understand the recent news that the National Football League is considering penalties against players if they utter one of the most ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This series on HBCU’s prompted a two-hour long discussion on the Carl Nelson Show in Washington, D.C. (WOL-1450). As the invited guest, I had the opportunity to deal with the issue of whether we value HBCU’s enough to help save them. On the very next day St. Augustine College, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Football fans younger than the age of 50 most likely never saw John Wooten perform on the field. A guard who fought many tough battles against the best defensive linemen of his day, Wooten was a member of the 1964 NFL Championship Cleveland Browns team, which featured the great ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our culture is obsessed with beauty. While some women are purchasing an ethnic standard of beauty with fuller lips, larger eyes, and round, full butts; others are running toward the euro-culture standard of long hair, skin lightening, and fat removal. As women, we cannot afford to fall for standards ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you regularly fly United Airlines, then you may want to take advantage of some of the credit card offers out there that reward you with United Airlines miles for every purchase you make. By combining your United MileagePlus Explorer card with the Chase Sapphire Preferred card, you can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With specific emphasis on Howard University, let’s consider a few solutions to the challenges HBCU’s face. There are some who say HBCU’s are irrelevant and no longer necessary because we are living in a “post-racial” society, mainly because a Black man was elected President by a majority of white people. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At some point during the mid 1990s, while working in the Detroit Free sports department, I told a colleague that my favorite hockey player was Mike Grier. The colleague was a bit surprised by my statement because I had never shown much interest in hockey. Afterwards, the colleague began ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been fortunate to be married for 24 years to an extraordinary Jamaican woman named Angela. She’s done a phenomenal job raising our two daughters, Aubrey and Austen, and over the past two years has been exceptional in counseling and mentoring our Chinese exchange student, Wangying Lin. So perhaps ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Craig Hodges never made an NBA All-Star team, but during the early 1990s he captured the attention of the basketball world by winning the three-point competition three consecutive years (1990-92) during the league’s celebrated All-Star Weekend. Playing in an era where talented sharp shooters like Reggie Miller, Glen Rice, ...