(ThyBlackMan.com) So maybe now, finally, Bishop Eddie Long will get to hurl the rest of his five rocks he supposedly has at the ready. The first rock of mediation missed the mark, or so it seems. Given the breakdown of settlement talks of the four sexual coercion lawsuits confronting Long, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black folks just seem to keep coming up with ways to divide themselves. We keep falling for distractions and side issues, which keep us from focusing on the big picture. The big picture my friends, is us, Black People, not just those you know but those you don’t as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A big stumbling block for fathers today is discipline. Some choose to avoid it altogether, while others struggle with what is appropriate. What do you do from day to day, moment to moment? One of the things I’ve noticed over the last twenty years is that fathers’ confidence in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you take out a car loan, you are agreeing to make all monthly payments on time through the terms listed on your contract. If you end up struggling to make your monthly payment and miss several payments, you could end up having your vehicle repossessed. Not only will you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me say this up front: Barack Obama has not, like the 43 guys before him, been a perfect president. I certainly find him to be a considerable upgrade from his predecessor, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say he has revolutionized the position of the President. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s been a good month to be Atlanta’s own Herman Cain. As May began, Cain was declared the clear winner of South Carolina’s GOP presidential debate. Last week, a Zogby interactive poll of Republican primary voters put Cain in second place, behind only New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was trying to ignore this because, quite frankly, it’s stupid. But my colleague Deron Snyder at the online publication The Root convinced me otherwise. By “this,” I am talking about the comments by Philadelphia boxer Bernard Hopkins about pro football quarterback Donovan McNabb, who played in Philadelphia for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whatever you plan to do today (May 16), make sure you are home in front of the television or have set your recorder to tape Freedom Riders, the excellent PBS documentary by filmmaker Stanley Nelson. And make sure children, related or unrelated, watch the documentary with you. For nearly two ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What next for The Donald Trump? His headline-making announcement that he’d seek the GOP nomination for the 2012 presidential race, distinguished by an obsessive insistence on seeing President Barack Obama’s original birth certificate to establish American citizenship increased the ratings for his NBC reality show, Celebrity Apprentice, and provided ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most of black America knows about CNN anchor Don Lemon. He’s 45-years old, but doesn’t look older than 35. He has a great deal of experience as a seasoned journalist, working on stations in Philadelphia and New York for several years. Now he’s a regular face on CNN, giving ...
(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) “It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of black against white, or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.” — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964 ...