(ThyBlackMan.com) My Dear Sisters, Over the past week or so I’ve read many tweets, Facebook postings, blog rants, and online petitions in response to Psychology Today’s posting of a ‘scientific’ study – “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women” by Satoshi Kanazawa. The reaction to Kanazawa’s armchair ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) May 25 will be a bittersweet day across America. On that day, after a quarter century of unparalleled excellence and out-of-this-world success, Oprah is closing down “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” TV’s top-rated talk show year after year after year. Hers is a truly remarkable and thoroughly American story, a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I went back in history and pulled out a quote from my sister Fannie Lou Hamer to write this article, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” After tossing my thoughts around for a few days in order to suppress my anger about the latest negative comments ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I just finished an interview with WHUR radio in Washington DC. The topic was an article in Psychology Today by Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, a Professor at The London School of Economics. In his commentary, Professor Kanazawa seemed to argue that higher levels of testosterone make black women less attractive than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In this era where marriage as it was once established in biblical and cultural terms is constantly being challenged, black women have emerged as the underdog in the hopes and dreams of ever getting married. Though divorce statistics are extremely high and marriage is plummeting in general, the challenge ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I know many of you have heard of or may even use the phrase yourself of “doing the most” or “doing too much“, well ladies I’m here to tell you that some of you are doing waaay too much. I understand that circumstances bring about responsibilities i.e. children, family, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Talk about awful timing: In a media moment where even straight-arrow political reporter Bob Schieffer is calling his statements about the president racist, reality TV star and possible presidential candidate Donald Trump presided over an episode of Celebrity Apprentice Sunday in which all three black women still on the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I didn’t touch her. I don’t even like black girls. I know what this is about, she is just upset I have a white girlfriend. I couldn’t tell you the last time I dated a black girl. She was trying to get with me. ” I had to do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Oprah Winfrey fired the CEO of her television network after a period of dismal ratings. Christian Norman, the former CEO for the Oprah Winfrey Network was released due to the fact that she was unable to get the kind of audience that Oprah desired. OWN is a partnership created ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As “Mothers’ Day” 2011 approaches, it is not only fitting, but also quite necessary to acknowledge, salute, encourage support and demand respect for all Black mothers across the world. African mothers gave birth to human civilizations. Black mothers are the original mothers. Today, the population in Africa has grown ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are more than 200,000 women who are currently incarcerated, 115,000 in federal or state prisons and 99,000 in local jails. Nearly one million women are on probation – representing 26 percent of those on probation and 98,000 are on parole. Women’s incarceration has grown by more than 800 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In spite of the numerous blatant and subliminal social obstacles that the Black community has faced in the past and continues to face, a remarkable number of African Americans have risen to highly-esteemed statuses in the professions, arts, letters, professional sports and the entertainment field in the last 100 ...