(ThyBlackMan.com) The black political grapevine recently informed me that respected political strategist Donna Brazile plans to meet with Professor Cornel West at Princeton University. The meeting was apparently arranged in response to the “moral outrage” that West has expressed toward the Obama Administration over recent weeks. The disappointment came to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the nation acknowledges Financial Literacy Month, 2011, it is more obvious to me than ever that what we are going through now is not a just an economic recession, but a global reset, and that financial literacy is so much more than a brochure or website. It became ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Forgotten in the furor over Orange County GOP Central Committee Member Marilyn Davenport’s vile, vicious, and blatantly racist depiction of President Obama and his family as chimps is the reason that she did it. The caption underneath the photo read, “Now you know why no birth certificate.” The timing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black academicians are having coronaries about the book “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.” Compiled by renowned Black historian Manning Marable, the book is a hot seller. Marable worked on the book for 20 years and died just before its publication last week. Among records Marable used were Malcolm’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Behaving in a way that is different from how we actually feel can be very stressful, both physically and emotionally. Human beings seem to be unique within the animal kingdom regarding how much time we spend masking our true emotions and thoughts. This need to “fake it” can be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My entire life, I’ve seen the costs and consequences of parents who don’t want to pay to take care of their own kids. My father abandoned me when I was child, and to my knowledge, paid zero or close to no child support. Over the years, I had two ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most frustrating things to deal with as a Black man is listening to Black women talk about what a “real man” is supposed to be or do. In fact, a group of us jokingly search for the “Book of Real Man” that these women must have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently I have had discussions about fitness with a variety of men over fifty years old. They had all very much enjoyed their bodies and being active when they were younger. Now though, each is dealing with serious injuries and limitations that are hugely frustrating to them. These people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NBA Playoffs started this past week, and I have to tell you, the excitment doesn’t match March Madness by any stretch of the imagination. At least, not yet. But the more troubling aspects of the NBA playoffs are the manifestations of league president, David Sterns, attempt to “manage” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How do you avoid a pounding head and queasiness the morning after a night of drinking? Well the only way to completely avoid it is to drink in moderation, or to stay away from alcohol entirely. But in many circumstances, it’s easy to overindulge. You may be inclined to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I’m so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee. Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, ‘this is a coon, this is a buffoon.’ I am sick of him talking about black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The New York Post has revealed that CNN is once again considering adding a person of color to one of their nighttime anchor spots. The move is long overdue, since black and brown people have been subject to the “all-white, all-night” phenomenon, where none of the major cable news ...