(ThyBlackMan.com) The detention of LiAngelo Ball and his two UCLA basketball teammates and Donald Trump’s tout of his role in getting them released dominated the news cycle for days. But there is another issue that their detention quietly, but just as troublesomely, rammed to the surface. That is the issue of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What does Lil’ Kim and countless black women like her have in common? They are what you call side chicks-women that married or involved men have relationships with. A ThyBlackMan staff writer by the name of Chelle St, James put it most honestly in her piece called Side Chicks Be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Children do not live in a safe world. We love our kids, but they are prey in a society where kids are targeted for sex trafficking, or they are sexually abused for the sake of another’s sick needs. It is important that parents protect their children as early as possible. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Keeping your life partner happy is not a rocket science. There are many simple tricks to make your spouse happy and show him/her how much you love. Many of today’s couples complain about their partner’s many shortcomings. Don’t be one of them when you can keep him/her happy by simply ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside cannot hurt you.” –African Proverb– Few topics of African-American bedlam have been as hush-hush and controversial as Black-on-Black Crime. We’ve discussed our hair, our bizarre dislike of each other. And thanks to Oprah, we had a national debate about color consciousness (dark skin vs. light ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Question is…overcome what? Is it tyranny of oppression, injustices and inequality or is it the noxious stimulus of something else? It was 1863 when physical enslavement was supposedly abolished, and albeit [chattel] slavery essentially was, slavery in of itself under the guise of different names…continued for another 100 years…finally dribbling ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a truth that exists in relationships that is hard for some people to digest – there will be cheating. I am not saying that everyone will experience infidelity, but for those that do, it is a long road to recovery if your mate forgives and takes you back. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When people meet royalty they generally post it everywhere and tell everybody. Can you blame them? It’s something special being in the presence of someone that has the blood of Kings and Queens flowing through their vain. All the history and experiences of their people are personified in the individual ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Looking your best allows you to feel your best. This is a given in most situations, however it may need to be revisited in the context of relationships. Both men and women tend to put there best foot forward when they are trying to get the attention of that special ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most black people on earth are being used to bring destruction. You see it with the NFL, with the division in the country, with black “families,” their tattered communities and their broken relationships with God. Blacks destroy everything “sacred” (to use Gen. John Kelly’s word). They hate decent, truth-telling white ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Who would have thought we’d live to see such a polarizing and pejorative figure as the current occupant of the White House as Donald J. Trump? While history tends to ceremonially rate modern presidents as endemic to the national cause, the judgment on America’s forty-fifth President appears to have been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The venerable Ezra Taft Benson once wrote, Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one’s family exalted in the celestial kingdom. That ‘celestial kingdom’ is always the goal we seek as fathers: to see our children excel ...