Can You Love God & Sex?

I have been trying to figure out what this was billboard was advertising for over a week.

I have a confession to make, the readers really drive content on the site.  As a writer at SingleBlackMale.org, I can tell you most people read a post one time, but they’ll read the comments many times over.  And in our minds we’re able to classify our readers into several categories, so it’s no surprise [...]

6 Questions To Ask on a First Date

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Knowing how to go on an effective date is a bit of an art form. The first thing you have to understand when going on a date is that the whole point is for the two of you to get to know each other while having fun. Many folks have no idea how to extract [...]

Single Black Mail: Should I break up his marriage?

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Today, we are lucky enough to have another concerned reader with a real world problem looking for guidance and assistance.  And as always, my opinion is good … but the real gold and the real advice is going to come from the comments.  All of you, what you feel, what you think, and what you [...]

Double Standards in Media: Psych Today, Joakim Noah, and blacktags

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Over the past few weeks, the Internet has been bombarded with articles for so-called experts which hold African Americans in a negative light. First we had the unfathomable article from Psyche Today which claimed that African American women are less attractive than other races. Then we had the Slate article which coined the cringe worthy [...]

You Must Respect Dude’s Night Out

How can you possibly caption this? Um... "not everybody can hang."

I was having lunch with a friend and she was telling me about a situation that was going on with one of her girlfriends: “Yeah, and so she’s due any day now. They had called her last Thursday and asked her to come in because she was having some complications, they were going to induce [...]

Why My Kid Will Only Go to a Top 50 School

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Her: I’m looking forward to having a family. I wanna have 3 kids. Not looking forward to the labor pains though.lol Me: Eh, I think my limit is 2. Since you’re about 5’9, athletic, and have good hair and I’m a strong 6’1 with slightly above average athleticism, I’d say they’d have a pretty good [...]

SBM Announcements Before the Rapture

Hey Folks, Comments of the Week is preparing for the Rapture, so instead we decided it’d be a good time to update and remind you of some of the happenings here at SBM. Since attention spans are even shorter after 5pm on Friday, we’re not gonna waste time gettin’ to it: SBM in Black Weblog [...]

You Can’t Always Save the Damsel

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  Joy: “I met someone else.” I read and re-read the words plastered across my mobile. We weren’t in the middle of a conversation. We hadn’t even talked in weeks, yet I wasn’t surprised by this message’s arrival. These were serious words. Not only because of their meaning but because of the “rules” we had [...]

Change You Can Believe In

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Before we get to the post, don’t forget to vote for SBM in the finals of the Black Weblog Awards! Best Design, Best Post Series, Best Group Blog, Best Relationship Blog, and Blog of the Year! The last time I was here, I gave a young lady some advice on her toking boyfriend. In case [...]

Damn homie, in high school you were the MAN homie…

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Everyone remembers their time in school. This was the most significant time in our adolescent lives. We spent a majority of our time in elementary, junior high / primary school, and high school. I can remember the tests, the playgrounds, the fights, the teachers, and most importantly, the friends I made. School was a more [...]