(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the biggest struggles of adolescence is learning to become comfortable with who you are and how God made you. Teens waste a great deal of energy trying to be what they are not. They have so many people telling them what they should be or who they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The death of pop music icon Whitney Houston has executives at Sony huddling up with marketing reps in its music and film division for a windfall of revenue from movie and DVD sales over the next year and many decades to come. Houston was found Saturday at the Beverly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I once knew a famous rapper. We don’t talk much anymore, since all the booty and bling have distracted him. But that’s beside the point. A few years ago, the rapper and I were talking about women and relationships. That was when he introduced me to a concept he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What exists in your life right now that isn’t quite the way you’d like it to be? You know, those things you put up with that you’ve been meaning to fix, but haven’t? Perhaps it’s the clutter piled up in your office or bedroom or your car. Maybe it’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Richard Cebull, chief judge for the U.S. District of Montana, took the nation aback this week by forwarding a set of shared remarks about President Obama. The judge passed on a racially offensive e-mail message that made jokes inferring that President Barack Obama’s mother had sex with dogs. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are growing stories of students from elementary, middle and high school who experience at various levels bullying; this may come in the form of harassment and torment at the amusement of one person ormultiple persons. Statistics from Health Resources and Services Administration estimates that up to 25 percent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Deus lo volt!” (Latin: “God wills it!”) was the slogan used by 11th Century Christian clergy to harangue men throughout Europe to join the Crusader armies, whose objective was to drive the Turkish “infidels” out of the Holy Land and restore Jerusalem to Papal control. Though the Crusaders had some initial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the years of listening to hip hop continuously, I learned that there were three types of rappers in that hip hop music consists of: you have the “rappers rapper“, the one who everybody in hip hop culture, fan or rapper, consigns. The mainstream rappers, who have the appeal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Black authors we have to stop bickering and beefing over petty issues. A great example of this is how author Nick Chiles regularly criticizes Urban Fiction in the harshest of terms. (See video below) While he is certainly entitled to his opinion, wouldn’t it be better if he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Tax Holiday legislation was successfully enacted and signed into law in private, away from the lights of glaring cameras and the public, by the President of the United States on February 22, 2012. That is unusual for a piece of legislation of its magnitude which received so much media ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, it was for all people. The Preamble reads: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Washington Post is back with its third installment of its groundbreaking research on Black women. This installment focuses on Black women being healthier and happier with their weight and looks more than other women. While I agree a little more with this assessment of Black women there remain ...