(ThyBlackMan.com) I went home to Columbus, Ohio this past weekend and learned a little more about my hometown. You see, I went to a high school football game with my friend to support her little brother. Let me paint the picture for you: Team 1: Suburbia Team 2: Inner-city The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am writing this for Tiana Parker. It is addressed to all the older black women currently shaping her life and the lives of many black girls. I was raised for a time by my grandmother, so I have a deep respect and love for older women. I want ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A couple of weeks ago, Bernice King, the Rev. Martin Luther King’s youngest daughter, led an impressive 50th anniversary march in honor of her father’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech. President Obama, two other former U.S. presidents, and many celebrities and dignitaries were in attendance. While participating in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “God is looking for people who are prepared, people that are taking steps to grow, people that are serious about fulfilling their destiny.” -Joel Osteen. It goes without saying that words can be powerful. The right words can mend a heart, rejuvenate the mind, and restore your faith. When I read ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Summer break is at a conclusion, Labor Day festivities, traveling, cookouts, parties, and all the fun thrown in; the “business of education” begins for many schools across the nation. 180 days of learning, 180 days of educational strategies, curriculums, differential instruction, ESOL, Benchmarks, Common Core, reading initiates, state assessments ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A million fathers needed to help raise confident, intelligent, positive, motivated and stable young ladies. Research has shown that a father’s involvement in the academic lives of their children will last beyond their childhood; in fact their influence will expand well into the child’s early adult lives (Rosenberg & ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I can make this a very short blog indeed if I honestly gave an answer to the title of this article on the self hating Negroes. I can say, when you see them…….RUN the other way. I can say, when they speak to you…….IGNORE them! I can say, treat ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A while back when some in the media were debating whether or not women can have it all, I thought to myself: here we go again! It seems the whole conversation started with a book titled: Lean In written by Sandberg, a Harvard-educated chief operating officer of Facebook, who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So I get an anonymous email stating that I am “Patriarchy’s Bottom Bitch” because I promote submission. If we as women really understood the definition, beauty and power of submission there would be no need for rebellion. The fact of the matter is, submission is NOT slavery. As long ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now wait. Before you say I am “selling you out”, I love black men. My husband is a black man, my father was a black man, my brother is a black man, and I’m raising two future black men. As much as I love black men and I will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most of us know the narrative of the deadbeat dad: The man who shows up to make babies, but never comes by to take care of them. Maybe he doesn’t pay child support, doesn’t spend time with his children, or has more babies mamas than the local maternity ward. I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For some reason marriage has become something so hard for Black folks to commit to, and when they commit to it, it often ends up in divorce. Some people get married with the mindset that “if it does not work, Ill just Divorce“. WRONG WRONG WRONG, and its just ...