(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you know the biggest cause of unhappiness, regardless of factors such as race, age, sex, or culture? That’s right… it doesn’t matter who you are or where you are from, the biggest cause of unhappiness is always the same, though you likely don’t realize it. Most people never bring ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A person’s father (or father figure) is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, influences in their life. This influence can be either bad or good, but it’s almost always there. If you want to give your kids a headstart on life, if you want to make life easier ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Remember how the LORD your God led you through the wilderness for forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would really obey his commands”. Deuteronomy 8:2 As men, a lack of character keeps us in the “male” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” 1Timothy 5:8I have been married for 21 years and I have always known that my role as husband and father meant that I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some men have a difficult time in managing their every day stresses and anxieties. With this in mind, here is a brief list of techniques that some men can use to help manage their most persistent fears and every day anxieties. When facing a current or upcoming task that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recent studies show that there are many homes in which men are not present. At one time these statistics mainly pertained to minorities, however today they transcend race and socioeconomic lines. Millions of children are growing up fatherless without a model of manhood in the home. As a result, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has become a travesty of epic proportions; Black boys are being sent in record numbers to the psychiatrist for mind-altering medications that come with a plethora of side effects. At the heart of the issue are allegations by classrooms teachers, many of them poorly trained at managing trivial off-task ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s about more than Big Bird and Elmo. Public broadcasting is our best hope for telling our own stories… Throughout the proposed budget now before Congress are a host of cuts that could be critical to the well-being of black America. From health care and Social Security to federal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nearly two weeks have passed since Super Bowl XLV, and although I no longer remember the score or Aaron Rodgers’ passing yardage or the number of advertisements that featured some sort of boneheaded lug and a potato chip, one figure refuses to escape my temporal lobe: $200. That’s the amount ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So, you want to know about Black Thanksgiving? That’s what sports writer Mike Wilbon calls NBA All-Star Weekend. First of all, what you need to know about Wilbon, whom I love, is that he has been known to exaggerate just a touch on occasion. But on this one, he’s on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In North Carolina this past Tuesday, Wake County Schools Superintendent Tony Tata seemingly took a stand for poor children when he announced that he would form a task force to reconsider the Tea Party-dominated Wake County school board’s controversial decision in March 2010 to base school assignments for children in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Well, they’ve done it again. Urban Prep Academy of Chicago, an all-male charter school with kids from the “worst” parts of Chicago, is sending 100% of its graduating seniors off to college. The school, founded in 2006, has stated that its continuous objective is to see to it that all ...