(ThyBlackMan.com) Today, I spoke at the Town Hall meeting on the state of the African American male, hosted by Bev Smith. Bev is the host of an evening talk show with American Urban Radio Networks. I was on a panel with Al Dotson -Chairman of 100 Black Men of America, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The only thing that we all know for sure, is that relevant is REAL. We talk about “keepin it real” but keeping it real is only important if it is relevant to what we’re talk in about or what we’re trying to resolve. The Republican and Tea Party candidates ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Graduating is about change and moving on, and in the same breath it can be frightening as well as exciting. Being frightened and excited often have the same physical symptoms: racing heart, shortness of breath, sweaty palms, etc. The only thing that is really different is your choice of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This coming Sunday marks the celebration of Father’s Day for many around the nation. My son and I have made a big mess constructing an arts and craft thingy for his dad. I love seeing those two interact together, it warms my heart and I feel blessed to have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While the media’s attention is embroiled in the seemingly endless Rep. Weiner scandal, the landscape of American democracy is changing in the most troubling and systematic ways imaginable. After years of suffering under the atrocious Jim Crow laws of ‘separate but equal,’ the people rallied behind those that were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Co-authored by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. 40 years ago today, President Richard Milhous Nixon declared America’s “War on Drugs.” This failed war continues even today to have a devastating and debilitating impact on the lives of millions of Americans. We add our voices to the growing number of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As an African-American, there is not a single day that I don’t turn on my television and/or radio and personally witness racism against African-Americans. The United States Department of Justice, The Republican Party, its media wing Fox News, and conservative talk radio in combination are a functioning terrorist organization. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I really had no idea of what to write about when thinking about the celebration of Father’s Day. I never knew my father. I was two years old when he was killed in my grandmother’s front yard. I was told, when I was old enough to digest the information ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am a proud graduate of Morehouse College. I am among a distinguished group of alumni who include Martin Luther King, Jr., Edwin Moses, Spike Lee, Samuel Jackson, Maynard Jackson and current Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain. It is unfortunately, most African Americans will not give Cain any objective ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Studies show that if your goals and dreams have many if not all these criterion, they are more likely to be accomplished and become real. 1. Your goals need to be measurable. It’s not enough to say, “I will write more.” It’s much better if you can state, “I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) BLACK CONSUMERS SPEND $2.2 BILLION WITH TOYOTA, YET TOYOTA REFUSES TO THANK BLACK CONSUMERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT… Toyota Motor Sales USA executives have angered National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Chairman Danny Bakewell Sr. and America’s preeminent Black newspaper publishers after the troubled carmaker backed out of a multi-million dollar ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before there was LeBron, before there was M.J., even before Ali, Joe Louis was the greatest. As Langston Hughes so eloquently said of Louis, “No one else in the United States has ever had such an effect on Negro emotions—or on mine. I marched and cheered and yelled and ...