(ThyBlackMan.com) (***) He came before them… Before Jimi Hendrix and Whitney Houston took creative license with “The Star-Spangled Banner” and before Marc Anthony and Bad Bunny sang salsa and reggaeton, José Monserrate Feliciano Garcia blazed a path. And now this nostalgic scrapbook of his life catalogues his trials and triumphs. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Homosapiens are habitual creatures who mostly run on autopilot. As children, humans are exposed to behaviors and constructs that define their sense of normalcy. Tragically, Black men have been directly and indirectly taught behaviors that often lead to habits that derail progress and stunt potential. Now more than ever, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today so many of our people in the African American community have forgotten the meaning of family. The meaning that our grandmothers, grandfathers and their parents understood. Almost all of us can sit back and tell “I remember when” stories. But what are we doing to make bring the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nothing brings a community together like the struggle for social justice. Being side by side in the trenches for a collective good is something that many people within the black community have done for a very long time. Our communities have often become stronger from the shared struggle that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Co-parenting children is a difficult assignment, but it can be a beautiful thing. Many couples are successful in combining their talents, perspectives, and responsibilities in raising their children, albeit from different households. Unfortunately, that is not the case for every co-parenting situation. One or both parents has become (or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For decades as a marriage, family and relationship counselor, mediator and life coach I have seen more cases than I can count of wives demanding that their husbands provide for the family – and that is Biblically correct. But it is not as simple as that. So today we need ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the declines in abortion rates over the past 20 years, Pro- Choice and Pro-Life means something totally different to the single-parent mother and father these days. Pro-choice means that the mother can choose to get child-support whenever she wants. Pro-life means that the father wants to be involved in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) He’s the boisterous voice in sports news with a large following. Jason Lee Whitlock is considered as a well-known sports journalist, columnist, and podcaster, at least according to Wikipedia. After a stint at ESPN and a series of Fox sports jobs, the Indianapolis, Indiana native found a home at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I play it cool and dig all jive, that’s the reason I stay alive. My motto as I live and learn is dig and be dug in return. -Langston Hughes In 1992, Dr. Richard Majors, along with Dr. Janet Mancini Billson, co-authored a book called Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Christian faith seems to have a serious problem between what is holy and acceptable, and come as we are. Everyone has the right to turn their life around and set themselves on a positive path. The church encourages this positive life turnaround. One would think that with all the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans are a major force to be reckoned with in today’s economy, especially when it comes to how much they pour into it. Estimates put it at about 1 trillion dollars annually and perhaps more. Any business, regardless of the type, would be wise to find out what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My People!! They’re calling you “Colored People” again. You’re calling yourselves “Colored People” again willingly. If you replace two letters of the hip new catchphrase “People of Color”, and rearrange them, you can literally spell out the term ugly historical term: “Colored People”. Just replace “of” with “ed” and ...