(ThyBlackMan.com) Condoleezza Rice has a book titled: No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington. The question is “how high an honor” does the former secretary of state consider her invitation for membership in the Augusta National Golf Club? Racism has always been a major issue in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Steve Alexander spent 32 years in the Telecom industry after graduating from the GTE-Sylvania Tech School, and has been active in Christian ministry for 28 years. His views on the plight of the American inner cities are shaped by over a decade’s worth of experience teaching classes in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sil lai Abrams, the relationship expert at Ebony.com, just wrote an article in which she challenged the notion of the “Ride or die chick.” The “ride-or-die chick” is defined, by some, to be the woman who stands by her man, no matter what. Sometimes, standing by that man might ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We’ve all heard of her; she’s been crooned, immortalized and hyped since the beginning of the 1990’s as the strong, self-sufficient black woman. She’s appeared in film, literature and theater as the saving grace of the black family and the antidote to black male patriarchy. In the process, she’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) recently began working at a school, and upon doing so, I have come face to face with some of the ills that are plaguing our community. My encounters have been with young boys dealing with bitterness towards women because of the resentment they have for their mother that abandoned ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Has Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, lost his mind? He is one of the few media-appointed leaders of Black folk that I actually have some level of respect for. But his recent attack on Nike and basketball player LeBron James has greatly diminished my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I received some resistance after writing my article about the STD epidemic occurring in black America. Some thought that by referencing the CDC study that found that half of all black women have herpes, I was somehow implying that black women are more promiscuous than everyone else. That’s not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) She’s walks in a restaurant on a Friday night with her girlfriends to enjoy a night out on the town. Her friends are wearing minis and three inch heels, some even four. She’s opted for a red dress that stops right at the knee. Her outfit is not tight, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When NaturallyMoi.com released an article stating that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that nearly half of all black women were infected with herpes, I was intrigued by the responses that I saw. At least half of the reactions were negative attacks toward the authors for even ...
(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) This Monday marks the start of the 2012 U.S. Open tennis tournament. Granted the ‘Open’ is one of the four majors along with The Australian, French and of course Wimbeldon, but it’s much bigger than that for me. It’s special. I, like millions of people the world over, love ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nike, being the marketing geniuses that they happen to be, are always testing the limits of our collective ignorance. The new LeBron X sneaker being released by Nike will take the company to the mountain top by charging a whopping $315 for a pair of plastic sneakers that probably ...