(ThyBlackMan.com) Why these two (and rappers like them) can get away with it and others can’t. “She said, ‘Why in the club you don’t make it precipitate? You know, make it rain, when you could make it thunderstorm…’ I’m like ‘Why? The world needs sun. The hood needs funds. There’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Texas governor and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, in an interview with a local African-American newspaper last October, boasted about his appointments and nominations of African-Americans to top spots on major state commissions, state boards, college and university boards, and to the courts. His signature appointment was Wallace Jefferson ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In one of the oddest events we’ve seen in a while, R. Kelly, the man who was accused of molesting a young girl, was asked to be the grand marshall of a children’s back-to-school parade. The parade was the 82nd annual Bud Billiken Parade, held in the Bronzeville neighborhood ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ok I am just now coming up for air after the onslaught that was borne out of the aftermath of my article on Ron Paul being like a favorite uncle. ( Click here ) Well my email box has been blitzed and is still recuperating. While the majority of the responses ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Cornel West, author, professor of Princeton University, and TV and radio talk host Tavis Smiley have generated a lot of controversy in the media arising from their criticism of President Obama’s leadership, or lack thereof. They are currently on nationwide “poverty tour” that will take them to 16 ...
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(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Ronald Mallett is building a time machine. He is a theoretical physicist who received his doctorate from Penn State and who is now based at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Mallett first conceived the idea to build a time machine at the age of 10. His father was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama received some bad news this week: A recent Gallup Poll found that the approval rating for the president has dropped below 40 percent for the first time ever. A full 54 percent of Americans disapprove of the job the president is doing. This revelation puts President Obama into ...
(ThyBlackmMan.com) Does the new film, The Help, show Black actresses playing maids to illustrate truths about a bygone era, or simply as cover to exploit and demean them as the movies have always done? The first feature length movie Hollywood produced was D. W. Griffith’s 1915 film, Birth of A ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Communication is often the underlying reason why many marriages disintegrate. Couples argue and verbally fight and say some of the most emotionally damaging and hurtful words to each other. Instead of engaging in such negative interchange, it would prove far better for those individuals in a one-flesh union to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rappers are faced with “selling out” or staying true. Both have their pros and cons, so which one to choose? I remember as a kid in 4th grade, listening to Ja Rule on the radio and watching him on 106 & Park daily. Letting him remind me why, at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) did not attend Wednesday’s movie release of “The Help” from DreamWorks Pictures, based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett. Why, you ask? Because I read the book. Last week New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Bruni saw an advance screening of the movie and referred ...