(ThyBlackMan.com) 1984. Year of the Prince…Prince Rogers Nelson, better known as Prince, that unpronounceable symbol, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince or simply, the most apt, The Artist. It was this year that Prince challenged the King (of Pop). Before the summer of 1984 Prince was an immensely talented but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The enshrined political article of faith is that presidents and presidential candidates rise and fall on the economy. There’s much to be said for that. And presumptive frontrunner for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination Mitt Romney is loudly claiming that President Obama has failed on the economy. Polls show ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you remember the highway signs that bragged about stimulus money being used to put America to work through “recovery and reinvestment“? “Thousands of contractors who got stimulus money to do such things as build roads and provide social services owe more than $750 million in back taxes, a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Briefs versus boxers, right? Actually, this isn’t necessarily a debate worth bothering with, says sperm expert Dr. Craig Niederberger, professor of urology at the University of Illinois and prospective editor-in-chief of the journal Fertility and Sterility. But there are many things – including some unexpected ones – that have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Columbia University Professor Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a long-time member of the Your Black World coalition, interviewed Star Jones on Our World with Black Enterprise. In the conversation, Star breaks her silence on the powerful feud she had with Nene Leakes, saying that this is the last time she is going ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 5.) Flavor of Love If the term “sell out” means you’ll do absolutely anything for money/you sold your soul to the devil/ lost all your moral fiber/ made your family look bad/ made your race look worse/pimp and exploit black women because white men told you too/ then ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While many questioned whether Barack Obama was “Black enough,” in the 2008 elections 96 percent of African-Americans cast their vote for him. Today, the question has re-emerged. In a recent critique, African-American scholar Cornel West stated that Obama is “culturally White.” This statement has created new ways to evaluate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The country is in the crapper and the economic outlook for America is bleak. Our debt topped $14 trillion and in two short years, because Obama spent $4 trillion. That’s the same amount president Bush spent during his eight years in office. Unemployment is at 9% and will probably remain ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Canaries have been used to warn miners digging for coal underground of the danger of toxic gases. As long as the bird kept singing, the miners knew their air supply was safe. A dead canary signaled need for an immediate evacuation. There are valuable “canaries,” albeit, politically diverse, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most difficult parts of being a father is learning to accept your children’s mistakes. It certainly can be easy to be loving, supportive, and helpful when your children are mistake-free, but most fathers who are paying attention don’t find too many mistake-free periods of their children’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) More than any other condition, Prostate Cancer comes up more than any other when it comes to the subject of Men’s Health. And the PSA test is most commonly mentioned when it comes to prevention of Prostate Cancer. The PSA test measures blood levels of a protein made by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It isn’t clear what is worse: the housing crisis that keeps deepening or the reports of pervasive banking fraud that keep getting exposed. With the banks facing billions in potential damages, perhaps some measure of justice can be done to the homeowners who have been the victims of the ...