(ThyBlackMan.com) ‘Always fresh, honest and often very funny’ Time Out on Hanging by Her Teeth Too often we are told to get rid of contradictions, told that they threaten us, or make us a threat to others. In this new biography Bonnie Greer gives us an insight into the controversial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Arguably the necktie remains one of the most given gifts to fathers on Father’s Day. According to Shawna Blake, a journalist for Helium.com, “Today the necktie is a bit passé, for there are many dads who don’t find a use for the neck ornament.” There are probably few fathers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the biggest problems confronting many inner-city Black neighborhoods is too many low-income Black males killing other low-income Black males. Needless to say, that is not the way such crimes are diagnosed in most of the press and by Black “leaders.” In newspaper articles and on radio and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today, I spoke at the Town Hall meeting on the state of the African American male, hosted by Bev Smith. Bev is the host of an evening talk show with American Urban Radio Networks. I was on a panel with Al Dotson -Chairman of 100 Black Men of America, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Graduating is about change and moving on, and in the same breath it can be frightening as well as exciting. Being frightened and excited often have the same physical symptoms: racing heart, shortness of breath, sweaty palms, etc. The only thing that is really different is your choice of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This coming Sunday marks the celebration of Father’s Day for many around the nation. My son and I have made a big mess constructing an arts and craft thingy for his dad. I love seeing those two interact together, it warms my heart and I feel blessed to have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I really had no idea of what to write about when thinking about the celebration of Father’s Day. I never knew my father. I was two years old when he was killed in my grandmother’s front yard. I was told, when I was old enough to digest the information ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Studies show that if your goals and dreams have many if not all these criterion, they are more likely to be accomplished and become real. 1. Your goals need to be measurable. It’s not enough to say, “I will write more.” It’s much better if you can state, “I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before there was LeBron, before there was M.J., even before Ali, Joe Louis was the greatest. As Langston Hughes so eloquently said of Louis, “No one else in the United States has ever had such an effect on Negro emotions—or on mine. I marched and cheered and yelled and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My mind is still unable to wrap itself around how LeBron James went from being considered to be a great athlete and team player to becoming one of the most hated athletes in all of sport. I hear people talk about LeBron like he’s the devil or a man ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the 2011 graduation season moves into full swing, Black Americans are reminded that only about two-thirds of students who enter the 9th grade will graduate with a high school diploma four years later. Among minority males the dropout rate is ominous. High school dropout is a national crisis ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us have goals and dreams that we would like to accomplish, but how many of us make those dreams a reality by taking action and bringing them to pass? Our intentions say “Hey, I wanna do this” or “I intend on doing that” but if we do not make steps toward ...