(ThyBlackMan.com) Ain’t I black enough? When did I lose my ’hood card, my street cred, the right to speak to or on issues concerning black folks? Ain’t I a black man, too? Is growing up poor in ghetto America, longing to taste the American dream instead of dying in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The greatest gift a nurturing father gives his sons is a healthy model of what it means to be a boy, a man, and a father. Boys and girls both need their father’s affection. But with boys it may be harder for dads to openly show it, even those ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Of course all the talk this week has been of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by the elite Navy SEAL Team 6. I was hoping, at least in the U.S., that this event would allow America to come together, if only for a moment, and reflect ...
(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) I am glad that President Barack Obama has a sense of humor about the birthers. I don’t, and I am disgusted that Donald Trump, lacking in both sense and scruples, was able to push the President to releasing his “long form” birth certificate. Now that the birth certificate has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Are you there for your kids? Really there? Or are you just going through the motions? I want to share with you how dads—even divorced dads—can establish a “consistent presence” in their children’s lives. For too many fathers, home is where they eat, sleep, and do their best to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Donald, the presidency and businessman Herman Cain… Seems that all America’s Black Ladies’ Clubs have banned together to “boycott Donald Trump until he admits that President Obama was born in the U.S.” Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” television show, his casinos, office buildings, and hotels, have been put in economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Osama bin Laden has been captured and killed. This information shot across my computer screen while I was working on transcribing a recent interview. At first I thought, okaaay, this is some kind of spam or joke. But when the following message indicated that the President would be addressing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’ve given “an Abe” for cannabis, cocaine or meth, then you are one too. Those five bucks joined a stream of money fostering the world’s illegal drug trade; the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substances subject to drug prohibition laws are estimated to be a $40 trillion ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a college professor for the past 18 years, I’ve noticed two things about college: It can be a place to make your dreams come true, and it can also be a breeding ground for your worst nightmares. So, I thought I would compile a list of things that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recall the story of the Tower of Babel, the mighty edifice our ancestors built to reach up to heaven so that they could know God? Look now at the Ivory Tower that is the university, and how it has the audacity to claim that it can ultimately know everything. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s one sentence that men never want to hear from a woman, it’s four words that hit you square in the gut, “Let’s just be friends”. Understand that we have friends, don’t need new ones, men don’t pick up new friends along the way all willy nilly. We’ve had ...