(ThyBlackMan.com) After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, things changed in this nation. For the first time, America went to war with an unknown enemy. The war efforts meandered from Afghanistan to Iraq and from Osama bin Laden to Saddam Hussein. And, in order to stimulate support for the war ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Set aside some prominent success stories, like the current occupant of the White House, and the last few decades have not been great ones for African-American progress. In 1975, per capita black income was 41 percent lower than per capita white income. Since then, the gap has shrunk only modestly, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The federal government’s new rules on “gainful employment” would make many students ineligible for financial aid at career-oriented schools… The Department of Education has proposed new rules for students attending career-oriented schools that could disproportionally harm minority students. The rules, which would go into effect in November, could cut ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re like so many other parents with back to school fever — you know, the ever-so-subtle panic attacks and the slightly pounding headaches — at this point you have solved the problem of where the money to pay for uniforms, shoes and school supplies will magically appear from. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) William Holland, a genealogical researcher living in Atlanta, has seen some pretty strange twists in his family tree. Several years ago, he found out that his great-grandfather was a black slave … who wound up serving as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. But this year Holland’s research resulted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After all the legal trouble T.I.’s endured, will his latest arrest for possession of a controlled substance kill his career? Not if theBVX has anything to say about it, so we’re giving the King of the South a few tips on how to live his life. 1. Explain Yourself IMMEDIATELY ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There was a time, not too long ago, when Americans thought that everything bigger was better. Got a nice big home? Sweet. But a 5,000-square-foot McMansion showed that you were really living large. Rolling around in a sporty SUV? Cool. But having a huge (and expensive) Hummer really showed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been to Africa dozens of times. However the trip to Sierra Leone was unique. Why? We went to cover “good news,” make that “wonderful” news stories. We did a story about a professional athlete from the States born and raised there, who returns every year trying to help ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) He must literally be perfect daily to be considered simply competent… Despite passing health care reform, despite preventing this recession and subsequent financial crisis from sliding into a full-blown depression, despite then passing the most aggressive financial reform legislation in U.S. history, despite having the most aggressive Department of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The economy hasn’t been kind to organized labor — especially black organized labor. Why it’s poised for a comeback… Notwithstanding Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s late-summer paean to a phantom economic recovery (does he have imaginary playmates as well?), this Labor Day will be the bleakest for America’s workers since ...