Gospel

(ThyBlackMan.com) In more than a few years of watching how power actually moves in this country, I have seen ambitious men mistake a full bank account for real influence, and the rapper Boosie Badazz has now paid dearly to learn the difference. The Baton Rouge rapper, whose legal name is Torrence Hatch, handed over six hundred thousand dollars to a couple of Washington operators who swore up and down they […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Women who make charges of rape should not be believed.  They should be given an opportunity to present their facts to law enforcement and if warranted, be able to have the evidence judged by a jury of their peers. Women lie.  Let me repeat, women lie like every other human.  You do not believe me? Ask the Duke LaCrosse players from 2006. Crystal Mangum, a former stripper and convicted […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Roc Nation is billing the weekend as history, and for once the label talk holds up. Across three nights in the Bronx this month, Shawn Carter became the first artist to sell out Yankee Stadium three shows running, each with its own setlist and its own staging. More than 1.6 million people entered the ticket queues for the original two shows back in March, all clawing for a seat. […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The debate rages over whether Mississippi high school football player Nolan Wells was the tragic victim of drowning. Or was he the victim of foul play? This brings back a painful memory for me. One that has been a cause of uncertainty and agony in my family for decades. My cousin, like Wells, allegedly died from drowning. His body was found near the Horn Island in Gulf Coast waters. […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black men have access to more information in a single day than our fathers could have imagined, and most of it slides right through us without leaving a mark. Let me tell you what got me thinking about it again. I was in the break room at work a few weeks back, standing there waiting on the microwave, and a younger brother at the table hadn’t looked up from […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Let us start with good news, because there is some. Caught before it has spread far, prostate cancer is one of the most survivable cancer diagnoses a man can receive. The five year relative survival rate approaches 99 percent when prostate cancer is diagnosed at a local or regional stage, and among Black men, about 86 percent of cases are still being diagnosed within those earlier stages. The trouble […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) There comes a point in a man’s life when the way he dresses stops being a matter of taste and starts being a matter of self respect, and a whole lot of us blew past that exit without ever checking the sign. My cousin Reggie turned forty eight in March. He came to his own party in a basketball jersey with another man’s name across the back, pulled over […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) On the nineteenth of June, on Juneteenth of all days, the doors of the Obama Presidential Center swung open to the public in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago. Eight stories. Nineteen acres. A library branch, a basketball court, gardens and a great lawn. Eight hundred and fifty million dollars in construction funded through private donations, though taxpayers also covered substantial infrastructure improvements in and around Jackson […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) People been arguing about who really pushed Michael for going on forty years now, and most of them are looking in the wrong direction. It was not Prince. It was not Madonna moving units, and it was not whoever the radio decided to prop up that season. If you want to understand the heaviest weight that man ever carried, quit staring at his competition. Go pull up his own […]