(ThyBlackMan.com) Socioeconomically speaking, black America is in a rut — a very long-lasting rut. At 13.6%, black unemployment remains nearly double that of their white counterparts and higher than it was in 2008. Despite national trends which bally-hooed an inexplicable drop in January from a 2011 average of 15.8%, the economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest controversy in Beyoncé Knowles news may be her breast-feeding Blue Ivy in public, but I’m still shaking my head about the recent fuss over her True Match commercial for L’Oréal, which highlights the singer’s mixed-race heritage. In the ad the star says, “There’s a story behind my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I needed a lock tumbler changed, so I decided to give some business to the Black man operating out of his van on Crenshaw. He seemed nice enough and when he struck up a conversation, it seemed fairly harmless. We were having a nice discussion about the weather and women ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For someone who made history as his state’s first African-American to serve in Congress and developed an international reputation for his work in support of Africa, Donald Payne was a pretty unassuming man. He didn’t have the flash of a Charlie Rangel or the fire of a Maxine Waters, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congratulations to Ms. Octavia Spencer for winning the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for The Help (2011). I thoroughly enjoyed her on screen passion, humor and audacity. Her irreverence shimmered like glitter, her rage took on an artistic flair, and the relationship ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rush Limbaugh did not apologize to Sandra Fluke. In his ten line “apology” statement to Sandra Fluke he devoted all of two lines to a tepid, kind of sort of “I made a mistake” pronouncement in branding her “a slut.” In the rest of the statement he railed against ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Three years ago, President Obama came to the rescue of Detroit’s struggling auto industry. His faith in that sector of the economy was rewarded recently when General Motors announced that it earned $7.6 billion in 2011, the largest annual income in its history. But just as was the case ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is official, the WYASWS (Why You Act So White Syndrome) virus has mutated into a new strain and is now starting to infect a subset of the general DWHC (Decent, White, Heterosexual, Christian) population at large. Just as with AIDS, this disease can no longer be dismissively ignored ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was not enough that the payroll tax cut for “working people” reduced the amount of money going into the Social Security Trust Fund; now our whopping $40.00 bonuses will be gobbled up by the oil companies as they raise the price at the pump. They have been wanting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) @ Jones Hall For The Performing Arts. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was conceived in Rogers, Texas, and later moved to New York City. Alvin Ailey would see his dance company flourish and grow in to an American institution over the course of his life. In the late ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For those that know me or that are becoming familiar with my platform, it is known that I consistently speak on the value and sacredness of the womb and the responsibility we as women have regarding our wombs. Well last week on my facebook page I posted the following ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Flashback to February 2009, R&B singer Chris Brown was arrested by theLos Angelespolice for allegedly beating up a woman. Insiders identified the victim as his then superstar girlfriend Rihanna. Three years later and it is now rumored that Rihanna and Chris Brown are back together again however, this time ...