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By Patia Braithwaite One of my male best friends is quite the catch. He’s a handsome, educated, motivational speaker, and an Amazon bestselling author. He’s got the face, the body, and he’s just incredibly dope. Every girl needs a guy like him on her team. Recently, while drinking fresh-squeezed lemonade on 53rd street and Lexington [...]
Today at 7:15 PM I’ll be on “The Daily Drum” which broadcasts locally in Washington DC on WHUR 96.3 & nationally on H.U.R. Voices Sirius XM Channel 141 to have a conversation on “ Why Are So Many Black Men Single.” If you have time, please check me out. Before going on the show, [...]
I grew up at a time in America when parents never sparred the rod, in fact, the entire neighborhood never sparred the rod. I grew up at a time when my best friend’s father was, at times, more influential than my own father. I grew up at a time when par for the course was [...]
**Before we get to the post, we wanted to announce that Single Black Male is a finalist in 4 categories in the Black Weblog Awards this year thanks to your nominations! We need your help one more time! Please vote for us in the finals for Best Blog Design, Best Blog Post Series, Best Sex [...]
[Dr. J is admiring himself in the mirror, while Reecie is laid comfortably on the bed in nothing but her red heels reading last week’s post from her BlackBerry.] Reecie: “Listen to me, the situation is going to happen to one of you.” <<<— this is rude. LMAO Me: How is that rude? Reecie: [...]
“This is sort of like when Tupac, came out with I Ain’t Mad At Ya. It seemed like there were so many songs with that same beat. Or maybe it’s like when every dancehall artist has to drop a track on the same beat. However, Wis had a great post last week on Black men [...]
Let me preface this post by saying this will be more ignorant than Rza. For those of you who don’t listen to Kanye West or hip-hop, because I know most of you roll together, Rza makes that track when he says, “Champagne wishes and thirty white b*tches!” One time me and my boy are hanging [...]
People ask me sometimes why I don’t go to church all that much, or why I’m not the most religious person in the world and I reply to them, “I really just don’t think that anyone knows God well enough to tell me how to love my God. If he’s supposed to be mine, [...]
Hear ye … Hear ye The Wonderful, Smart, Sexy, and Lovely Ladies of SBM.net have decreed that today, the 17th day of our Lord in the month of September be declared “Black Men’s Appreciation Day”. A day that is to be dedicated to letting the black men in your life get one day where we [...]
This post comes from a resident commenter Ms. Deveraux at her blog The Journey of Ms. Deveraux and kicks off me featuring a different writer/blogger/ person who has something to say. Enjoy. ADMIRE: to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval One thing about living in Chicago that I wouldn’t normally experience in Texas is the [...]
