(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip-Hop music is an art form all unto itself. Its unique rhythmic beat and craftily-packaged rhymes can be very catchy, entertaining and stimulating. Because listeners are often caught up by the beat and impressed with the artist’s literary creativity, and, perhaps are just happy to see one of their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Consumerism and worship of material goods has been a grave hinderance to the progression of African Americans. Modern leaders fail to speak of this problem due to their own addiction to materialism. Our greatest leaders Harriet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Fred Hampton were paupers, focusing on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NAACP, National Action Network, the SCLC, 100 Black Men, the three different Black Lives Matters groups – are they outdated, playing games or simply about self? We see their Facebook pages. We here about their rallies. We hear about their golf tournaments, voter registration drives and block parties. We ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This world we live in is loaded with stress and there is no real way to avoid it; we can only hope to mitigate it as much as possible. Every aspect of life carries a different kind of stress: work, family, personal life, health, and sometimes just trying to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 1 Corinthians 4:15″ Even though you have ten thousands guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.” An observation: There are more and more young men and adult men who are yearning for a father figure in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s time to face some hard facts. When people lose respect for you as a family member, friend, lover, co-worker, boss or customer, they begin to lose interest in you. They gradually begin to go away from you and start avoiding you. Here are 30 signs people are losing respect ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are albums that are considered everyone’s favorites. Like, everyone agrees you should check these albums out. Then there are albums that folks say that you should check out but you probably never heard of the artist before. I’m not going to lie, often times the ones everyone say ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once a tiny segment of our existence—a mere association with a group whose ideas align with ours on average—political parties have evolved from simple associations into our primary identities. They have absorbed our perspectives, entered our daily conversation, and permeated all forms of media. As more and more individuals ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During this Supreme Court session, the justices will tackle affirmative action in two cases brought by “Students for Fair Admissions,” opposing affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. According to its website, this group represents “20,000 students, parents, and others who believe that racial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It takes courage to be an American. Whenever the entire world said that something cannot be done, Americans simply smiled and rolled up their sleeves with a steadfast resolve which non-verbally screamed: “Oh, yeah? Watch me work.” When wrongdoing took place before our eyes or within range of our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, seized headlines over the past couple of weeks because of offensive behavior on social media that lead to social media bans, dropped collaborations, canceled contracts, and public outrage withal. It’s been a frenzied up and down all-around observation in recent days ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Christians often tell me that they’re following the word of God as prescribed in the Bible, and as we all know, they say, the Bible is the word of God. We know that for a fact because the Bible says it’s the word of God in no uncertain terms. In ...