(ThyBlackMan.com) Recent studies show that there are many homes in which men are not present. At one time these statistics mainly pertained to minorities, however today they transcend race and socioeconomic lines. Millions of children are growing up fatherless without a model of manhood in the home. As a result, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Because your entertainment defines you, it’s essential that you watch what you do with your spare time. There’s no doubt about it. As single Christians, we can get into trouble if we’re not vigilant. The Enemy provides more temptations today than ever. Not only do we need to guard our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re looking for excitement, Christianity is an adventure that can’t be beat. For singles, it can mean the greatest intellectual challenge, the greatest spiritual experience, and sometimes the greatest physical test a person can ever have. The more you study this faith, the more you understand that it had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has become a travesty of epic proportions; Black boys are being sent in record numbers to the psychiatrist for mind-altering medications that come with a plethora of side effects. At the heart of the issue are allegations by classrooms teachers, many of them poorly trained at managing trivial off-task ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s about more than Big Bird and Elmo. Public broadcasting is our best hope for telling our own stories… Throughout the proposed budget now before Congress are a host of cuts that could be critical to the well-being of black America. From health care and Social Security to federal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nearly two weeks have passed since Super Bowl XLV, and although I no longer remember the score or Aaron Rodgers’ passing yardage or the number of advertisements that featured some sort of boneheaded lug and a potato chip, one figure refuses to escape my temporal lobe: $200. That’s the amount ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like many out-of-work Americans, Philip Tressler gets his unemployment benefits deposited directly into his checking account. He could have received the benefits via a debit card that the state also offers. But Tressler, who was laid off 14 months ago after 32 years working for a grocery store in western ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The nation’s blacks are leaving big cities in the Northeast and Midwest at the highest levels in decades, returning to fast-growing states in the once-segregated South in search of better job opportunities and quality of life. The Southern U.S. region — primarily metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So, you want to know about Black Thanksgiving? That’s what sports writer Mike Wilbon calls NBA All-Star Weekend. First of all, what you need to know about Wilbon, whom I love, is that he has been known to exaggerate just a touch on occasion. But on this one, he’s on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I don’t need wear a dress to be funny.” Dave Chappelle made this emphatic statement back in 2006 during a soul searching sit-down with Oprah Winfrey. He told her a revealing story about an experience he had on the set of a Martin Lawrence film (presumably Blue Streak) — where ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In North Carolina this past Tuesday, Wake County Schools Superintendent Tony Tata seemingly took a stand for poor children when he announced that he would form a task force to reconsider the Tea Party-dominated Wake County school board’s controversial decision in March 2010 to base school assignments for children in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first read the news about Representative (Rep.) Charlie Rangel filing a 2012 statement of candidacy with the Federal Elections Committee for a possible 22nd term in Congress, I initially laughed as I conjectured that the article was somehow meant as a joke. To my surprise, research indicated that ...