(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Mr. President, I listened to your speech last week at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network’s 20th anniversary dinner, talking among friends and close supporters. This was an annual African American dinner, a very important one. While I know that any Democrat would have fulfilled their promise to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The following is an exerpt from the book, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about College.” Before I tell you all the great things about college, and all the things that are going to happen before, during and after, we should start with a very basic question: why do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Friday the International Game Developers Association will honor Jerry Lawson for all he’s done to move the state of the art forward. The honor has been a long time coming. It was back in the mid-1970s that Lawson developed the first video game console system, breaking ground in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A story is making its rounds on the Internet and it is headlined as follows: “New NAACP Leaders Broaden Group’s Mission.” The headline relates to a brewing controversy within the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization: Several local chapters have elected non-African American leaders and the organization is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama just opened a new web portal for African Americans. The page drops to significant fanfare, with some feeling less than perfectly optimistic about the White House’s most recent gesture. The most interesting comment came from someone named Slim Jackson, who tweeted: “Can’t help you in real ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Great Car Debate: To Buy or to Lease? Many of us cannot decide whether to buy a new car or lease one when it’s time for us to get a new vehicle. This article will give you the pros and cons of both options to help you make ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over one-fourth of 326 black women to participate in a study on hair loss were found to have lost hair on the top of their scalp. Additionally, 59 percent of the study’s participants showed signs of central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, otherwise known as CCCA. CCCA is a form of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Regarding our three-year old son, my wife and I have already had the discussion that the parents of many young black boys will have at some point in time: “What if he brings home a white girl?!!” Further still, what if our yet-to-be baby girl brings home a white ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My heart sank as I watched Cornel West and Rev. Al Sharpton going at it on MSNBC’s special, A Stronger America: The Black Agenda. Even host Ed Schultz had to shut down the bickering like a referee at an MMA fight that had gotten out of control. Neither West ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Note: To help Rocky Clark and his family, please visit http://Rasulrockyclark.com The story of Rasul “Rocky” Clark is a cautionary tale to all the mothers who send their sons to the football field on Saturday afternoon. Ten years ago, Clark was living the dream of many African American males: ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In case you don’t recall, Bethany Storro was the woman in Washington who threw acid on her own face and then claimed that a black woman did it. Storro recently pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a public official and was sentenced to a one-year suspended sentence. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently had a discussion with a concerned friend of mine regarding her son. As a married, African-American mother raising her son in a predominately Caucasian school and community, she expressed a concern regarding him losing an appreciation for his heritage as he assimilates into an entirely different world ...