(ThyBlackMan.com) What do you get when you combine an already successful makeup artist business with a successful photography establishment? Lash To Lens. Lash to Lens is the brainchild of makeup artist Charlene Armstrong and photographer Kesha Lambert. Introduced by Charlene’s husband, the ladies started working with each other when they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My sister and I recently sat down to watch a show that we enjoy quite often called Millionaire Matchmaker. The host of the show was setting up a session for a rich and distinguished black man and was in the process of considering black women who she thought would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan was engaged to long-time girlfriend Yvette Prieto this week, a lot of folks in the black community looked at their computer screens with a crooked neck. Not that anyone is particularly interested in the personal life of Michael Jordan, but some were trying ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we move into a new year, it is absolutely critical that we African-American people get serious about providing a quality education for our children. Nearly 20 years ago in a column in the Richmond Free Press, I wrote that “Churches, Greek organizations, social and civic clubs need to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) She walks around with no direction/no protection/ You left Her after conception/looking for the love that You never gave Her/so with words it’s easy for men to sway Her/She gives up Her body so easily/so willfully/asking why didn’t He love me/Is it because I look like Her/Talk like Her/But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When we try to figure out why it is that we can never seem to find “The One”, the usual response is that you can’t find love because you’re too picky. But, is that really the case? Most of us, whether we openly admit it or not, have a list ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: ‘that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My father recently told me something that blew me away. All the game I have, all I’ve learned, came mostly from my old man. He gave me the game since I was a kid, yet he still surprises me from time to time. What he basically said was: “You ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Citywide exhibitions are open to all artists of the African Diaspora in the greaterHoustonarea. Sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) through Five-A (the African American Art Advisory Association at the MFAH), the annual Citywide exhibitions offer artists the opportunity to show their work to a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s that time of the year again, mistletoe, holiday cheer, Christmas trees, beautiful lights and most importantly, presents. If you are an engaged, devoted, loving single dad, you will definitely come face to face, often, with your children’s mother. No matter how long it has been since you separated, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Rape is the murder of the essence of a female.” I can certainly bear witness to that , because at the age of 15 a part of me was murdered. I remember the day it happened. The time, the weather, the season… the day I had no choice in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is the NBA ready for an openly gay player? NBA Owner Mark Cuban thinks so. The prospect of a head female coach and openly gay players in the NBA may have at once seemed as unlikely as the African-American president who now resides in the White House. But the ...