(ThyBlackMan.com) The IRS reports that 75 percent of taxpayers get a tax refund check each year, and that the average income tax refund is currently about $3,100. Getting a refund check after a year of hard work often feels like a bonus, but isn’t a tax refund more like giving ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you know where your cholesterol is? Don’t assume your cholesterol is fine just because the doctor said so several years ago. If your doctor determines your fasting total cholesterol level exceeds 200 or if your LDL cholesterol level is above 100, you can get it down safely with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In February the news headlines blared “Gasoline pump prices hit a 28-month high.” The February high has been exceeded in the past two months. Congress and the Obama Administration worry that the surge will drive down consumer spending, dampen business investment and hiring, further weaken housing sales, plunge the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) LaShanda Armstrong, a 25-year old mother of four, drove herself and her children into the Hudson River this week. Armstrong was distraught after finding out that her boyfriend Jean Pierre, father of three of her children, was sleeping with another woman. Armstrong and three of her children drown, with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the country begins to take a first look at its population by the numbers, Black Americans are getting a startling story. In major cities across the country, census numbers are revealing a shrinking Black community in the urban cores of places like Chicago, New York, and even Washington, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many critics are pointing their finger at President Obama for failing to address various issues in the Black community, but that’s not his job. The Black community is going to have to stop sitting around waiting for a Messiah to solve our problems. It’s the Black community’s responsibility to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Can you imagine Black Life in America if there was no NAACP? It seems that over time the group served a vital purpose for African-Americans; but these days and across cultures, the NAACP is about as significant as “Members Only” jackets. At the NAACP’s 101st convention, the head of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is not an article to demonize young Black men. This is an article to help stop the carnage in Black communities across America, to begin the process of rebuilding these communities and to re-engineer the lives of young Black men. Many young Black men feel angry and are desperate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Take Heart, Laggards, There Is Still Time to Cut Your Bill or Boost Your Refund… The government has given its citizens several new tax breaks this year, and has made it easier than ever for them to file their returns. The days of battling lines at the post office ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t have great confidence in the state of Black Love. By ” state of Black Love ” I don’t mean an annual report ala the National Urban League nor a yearly event along the lines of the State of The Black Union. The state of Black Love I have ...