(ThyBlackMan.com) As a college professor for the past 18 years, I’ve noticed two things about college: It can be a place to make your dreams come true, and it can also be a breeding ground for your worst nightmares. So, I thought I would compile a list of things that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s one sentence that men never want to hear from a woman, it’s four words that hit you square in the gut, “Let’s just be friends”. Understand that we have friends, don’t need new ones, men don’t pick up new friends along the way all willy nilly. We’ve had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I returned home after another long day anticipating a good meal and then a few hours of R & R in front of the TV. But when I opened the door, evidence to the contrary was obvious: a pink coat, a small, glittery shoe, and then a shriek of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the killing of Osama Bin Laden, a collective sigh of relief can be heard from the Black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Detroit to the Muslim communities of Harlem and downtown Manhattan – not necessarily because a terrorist attack was feared in these locales – but rather because ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Cold, rainy, snowy days bring on the blues in many of us. Along with the blues sometimes comes an insatiable appetite for comfort foods that usually don’t even begin to help improve our moods. The foods we crave are usually loaded with carbohydrates, sugar, and fat and tend to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On August 28, 2008 Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president exactly 45 years to the day from Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. The Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement ended exactly 100 years apart, in 1865 and 1965 respectively. The most important speech ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It seems that some Black people have suddenly become one issue voters. I’ve been voting for a lot of years, and I have seen Black people vote for the lesser of two evils without complaining. I’m from Louisiana, so much of my life the lesser of two evils was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are a variety of verses in the Bible that seem to command us to avoid fallen or backslidden Christians. Yet one verse in particular, Galatians 6:1, commands us to restore fallen Christians. What are we to do? 1 CORINTHIANS 5:11 1 Corinthians 5:11 – But now I have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many perspectives on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Perspectives about which we continue to explore, write and speak. Pastor of the people, Philosopher of non-violence, Ph.D. in theology, Peacemaker of Nobel Prize quality, Protester of racial injustice, Councilor to Presidents and a Promoter of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some recent research studies have found biological changes in new fathers — even at the hormonal and brain cell level. One study in Israel tracked levels of the hormone oxytocin in first-time parents during the early months of parenting. Oxytocin is known for its correlation to moments of strong ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In spite of the numerous blatant and subliminal social obstacles that the Black community has faced in the past and continues to face, a remarkable number of African Americans have risen to highly-esteemed statuses in the professions, arts, letters, professional sports and the entertainment field in the last 100 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Sunday evening, in the minutes after the official announcement of Bin Laden’s death at the hands of American Special Forces, I began receiving two kinds of phone calls. One genre came from my media junkie friends, ever eager to gab about the social significance of any news considered ...