(ThyBlackMan.com) The only thing that we all know for sure, is that relevant is REAL. We talk about “keepin it real” but keeping it real is only important if it is relevant to what we’re talk in about or what we’re trying to resolve. The Republican and Tea Party candidates ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) While the media’s attention is embroiled in the seemingly endless Rep. Weiner scandal, the landscape of American democracy is changing in the most troubling and systematic ways imaginable. After years of suffering under the atrocious Jim Crow laws of ‘separate but equal,’ the people rallied behind those that were ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Co-authored by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. 40 years ago today, President Richard Milhous Nixon declared America’s “War on Drugs.” This failed war continues even today to have a devastating and debilitating impact on the lives of millions of Americans. We add our voices to the growing number of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As an African-American, there is not a single day that I don’t turn on my television and/or radio and personally witness racism against African-Americans.  The United States Department of Justice, The Republican Party, its media wing Fox News, and conservative talk radio in combination are a functioning terrorist organization. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Between 2004 and 2007 I was a spokesperson and liaison for minority media at the Republican National Committee, and I routinely fielded questions from black journalists about what the Bush White House and Republicans were going to do about the “alarmingly high” 9% unemployment rate for African-Americans. People were ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I am a proud graduate of Morehouse College. I am among a distinguished group of alumni who include Martin Luther King, Jr., Edwin Moses, Spike Lee, Samuel Jackson, Maynard Jackson and current Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain. It is unfortunately, most African Americans will not give Cain any objective ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney was asked during the 2008 GOP presidential primary campaign what he thought about diversity. He gave the stock answer that he supported it in government and corporations. A little later Jay Leno in a late night interview asked him whether his administration would be ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A couple of months ago Stephen Bannon, the director of “Fire from the Heartland”, called and said, “I’m working on a top secret film and I want you in it.”  “I’m there.”  Two weeks ago, I got to see the rough cut of that film, Sarah Palin “Undefeated”.  It’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For political junkies, the mere thought of it gets us all to tingling. It’s the equivalent of the day pitchers and catchers show up at spring training or the kick off of the Hall of Fame game for football fans. (For U.S. football fans, that is. For soccer fans, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Herman Cain, businessman and declared candidate for the GOP 2012 presidential nomination, puts a face on the resurgence of Black Conservatism sweeping America. Representing a group sometimes called the “minority in a minority” and “marginalized of the marginalized,” Cain is bringing national attention to those many thought extinct. While, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Some have speculated that the Iowa Caucus, with its quirky, undemocratic style is losing its relevance.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  Recent history demonstrates that the Iowa Caucus is an absolutely critical step toward the highest ambition of most Republican Presidential candidates – a successful broadcasting career.  ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A clearly perturbed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton angrily denied that she was seeking the top spot at the World Bank. One Clinton spokesperson less charitably called the rumor “grade A BS.” But the rumor of Clinton as World Bank president cast another glare on the World Bank’s policies ...