(ThyBlackMan.com) Detroit native Jarvis Brown is a dedicated hard worker who loves to help his community and have fun. As a youth development specialist for Youthville Detroit, Brown is able to live out his passion, with a little help from one of the most dynamic entertainers on the planet—Usher. Among ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans are less likely than other ethnic groups to visit the eye doctor regularly. And 24% of us said it had been more than two years since their last eye exam. This trend is particularly disturbing because people of African American descent are at higher risk for the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I bet you thought I was going to let this pass didn’t you… Last week Eddie Long pumped the brakes on his sex scandal that rocked the Black Church and sparked discussion, criticism, ridicule and just about every other emotion you can get when a man of the cloth ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This Fathers’ Day will be a difficult one as it has always been for many people who do not have fond memories of their father. There are stories of abuse, neglect and abandonment, but there are also great stories of fathers and other men coming into the lives of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the month of May, a news story broke about a social experiment that was being performed on a young child named Storm. The parents of said child decided to leave the gender up to him/her to prove that it is something to be learned as opposed to thrust ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In one of the most sickening displays of corporate exploitation, Red Bull has decided to create a basketball tournament that takes place at the infamous Alcatraz prison, dubbed “King of the Rock.” Bringing ballers from around the world, the ad presents imagery of black men dribbling basketballs and dunking ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a child of the Most High God are you Clark Kent disguised as Superman or are you Superman disguised as Clark Kent? There are Christians who pretend to be Superman, super Christian, but lack the fruit of the Spirit in their lives. They are Clark Kent disguised as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If your a basketball fan or just keep up with sports, such as myself, you remember the “big announcement” by Lebron James. His announcement made headlines; we all wanted to know the next NBA team that he was going to join. There was so much speculation about where he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When two million Blacks moved from the rigidly-segregated South to the North, West and Midwest from 1910 to 1930, it was called the Great Migration. When another five million African-Americans fled the South between 1940 and 1970, many seeking good jobs and a better life in New York, Los ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This morning I woke up to reading my daily online news publications. I immediately was entranced by an article with the headline, Lupe Fiasco: Obama Is a Terrorist, on TheRoot.com. I sat, thought for a minute, and decided to write about it. I have never in my life seen ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the “official” story goes, between the year 1932 and the year 1972, the United States Public Health Service (PHS) conducted a series of secret longitudinal studies on Black sharecroppers who had already procured syphilis. While the official story says one thing, if you ask people about the study, most ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Parenthood provides great Kingdom perspective. In The Top Five Reasons for Being a Top Notch Father, I listed the #1 reason for being a father is that fatherhood provides men with an inside view of the relationship God is developing in us. How we interact with our children as ...