(ThyBlackMan.com) I first signed up for Twitter in 2006. I used it rarely as a means of contacting other bloggers. I left it alone for a while because all I shared was what I read in newspapers and my blog post. I didn’t like it at the time because in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I met Calvin Alexander Ramsey through the Black Caucus of the American Library Association email list-serve. I contacted the author to see if I could review his new children’s book entitled, “Belle, the Last Mule at Gee’s Bend.” This was my first children’s book that I’ve read in a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the day of athletes being rewarded with commercial endorsements, endless bling, fancy mansions and fast cars, it is a breath of fresh air to see black athletes doing more than running a ball. Shaquille O’Neal is known for his skills on the basketball court. O’Neal played three years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When it comes to African American men the stats, media and society often present a negative image of our young brothers. In turn this leaves some people visualizing black men disparagingly as drug dealing, gangbanging, sagging young men hanging out on street corners. However, we are well aware that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today Facebook began it’s IPO tour. Tomorrow the social network will force everyone to live online forever through the mandatory Timeline. It’s just another step for the company that is half effective and half diabolical. When Facebook first came out I wasn’t too keen on it. I had already ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From Jackie Robinson to Jeremy Lin NY sports have always had its pulse on America’s potential. Love it or hate it, so has NY media. Combine them and you get something beautiful. Embarrass them and you come up with something ugly. My first example of the latter is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m 10 days out from my wedding. I’m trying to tie up all loose ends before I actually arrive in Chicago a week from today. In doing so I’m on the hunt for a cake topper. I called my local Hobby Lobby; no dice. I went into Michael’s last ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a parent I understand the worry and concern regarding the future of one’s child’s education. Statistics show that those with more training and a college education are normally in a higher income bracket. This sounds pretty simple to some. But we all know that college is not for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everybody looks toward Miami Heat’s “Mr. Everything” Lebron James for playoff answers in 2012. No surprise there. As history records it, King James was defeated in last years NBA finals by the Dallas Mavericks. The ‘King’ came in second. No cigar there. People started questioning basketball royalty. Here’s the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z to call their marketing shots — what a shock that he chose black and white as the new team colors to stress, as the Nets explained, their new “urban” home — why not have him apply the full Jay-Z treatment? Why ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that anything and everything revolving around Beyonce is hot. Everyone wants a part of whatever Beyonce is doing. Rather it’s positive or negative people want to know everything there is to know about the woman Beyoncé. There was the hushed hushed marriage of her and hubby Jay ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Though, I am a young woman; I love football. I was never a big fan of the San Diego Chargers, but I had a close connection to the team. The former running back for the team, LaDainian Tomlinson graduated from Texas Christian Universityin my hometown of Fort Worth,Texas and ...