(ThyBlackMan.com) Feeling a little tired after a workout is to be expected, but something’s not right if your workout leaves you feeling totally exhausted. If you’re experiencing post-workout fatigue, it’s worth your while to take a look at your workout as well as your lifestyle to reveal potential causes. Start ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I noticed that the rapper Ja Rule is headed to prison this week to begin a two-year sentence on a weapons charge. Being caught with a gun in New York is no joke, especially when you’re black. The NYPD stops and searches black males at alarming rates, and the state has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Each year I watch the McDonald’s High School All-American basketball game and try to determine who’s going to be the next NBA great. Watching LeBron James, Kobe Bryant or Kevin Garnett, it was easy to see they were going to be stars, but many times the potential for stardom ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Ok so I’m obviously not a racist, but there’s a bunch of black people at the beach by my building and a piece of watermelon just washed up on shore by me, just sayin’ ” (via http://notaracistbut.tumblr.com*) “Is it gay for a man to get a pedicure and then ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It started here in a log cabin and a cotton patch. If it hadn’t been for Benjamin Mays, there probably wouldn’t have been a Martin Luther King.” So said Ambassador Andrew Young as he spoke at the dedication of the Benjamin E. Mays Historical Preservation Site in Greenwood, South ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its unemployment data for the month of May. The unemployment rate for the African American community went up from 16.1 percent to 16.2 percent. Black males, who already had the highest unemployment rate of any ethnic/gender category, saw their joblessness rise ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was April 4th, 1968 and a coward’s shot rang from the distance. The target: a brave man. It was a mild 90-degree’s on that day. If one searched, no breeze could be found from the east or the west nor the north or the south in Memphis, Tenn. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former Black Panther Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt died Thursday in Tanzania, according to his attorney. Pratt spent 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. He died at the age of 63, and authorities do not yet know his exact cause of death. “He could’ve been a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere in a U.S. prison today, a young Black man sits behind bars counting down the years, months and days till he sees freedom. After spending the better part of his adolescence locked away for cocaine distribution, he has become hardened and likely more dangerous while his White cellmate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many connotations in the media and society that still portray African-American women in a negative light. I believe that our race needs therapy. I remember when I was in an abusive relationship and I thought the man that I was with loved me. However, I came to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Meet the next target of the “all-regulation-is-bad” crowd: school lunches. Our children face a devastating obesity crisis — and yet some Washington lawmakers are calling even the most commonsense moves to ensure them a healthier diet a “classic nanny-state overreach.” Really? Let’s look at what these simple, straightforward federal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me say this up front. Homosexuality is a sin which has long been hated among Asians, Hispanics and African American communities. This is a FACT! Wait, there IS more! Take a stroll through any public school and you will hear male or female students coming down on their ...