(ThyBlackMan.com) When I read about a report released this week showing that NCAA athletes are worth six figures, the only thought I could muster was, “that’s all?” Perhaps because I’m a Finance Professor, I’ve been hearing the “cha-chings” in college athletics since I first learned how business models work. Any activity ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I would like to say the new world has not been in such a despondent state of precariousness since King Manuel I set Vasco de Gama loose of to this region from a village on the Tagus River in 1497. Although the same level of disease and pestilence may ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the last six months, I’ve had the privilege of talking to a group of African American teenage boys whose stories are often lost in all the heated rhetoric about how to fix our public schools. These boys could easily have added their lives to the historically high dropout ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are constantly discussing the plight of single mothers, women who are left to raise children without fathers in the household. We have heard stories of dad’s taking off and leaving, never seeing their offspring again or hardly keeping in touch. However, we rarely hear about the mother that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Essence Magazine’s Demetria Lucas (who I consider a friend after having her on my show once) recently hit on her oft-discussed topic of black women and relationships by questioning whether or not the stereotype of the single, bitter black woman is true. Her words were a reflection of comments made by Ralph Richard ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Black America, can we talk? How about in the churches… or the HBCUs… or somewhere within our urban communities? So, here’s what I want to discuss. I propose we invest in creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem with a goal of generating 150,000 jobs in the next 12 months. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am taken back by the level of conformity and tolerance in my community for mediocrity, acceptance of the status quo and the derisory fatuity we display with respect to everything from our comprehension of politics and economics to our limited understanding of history and learning from past and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Driving home from church today, I thought about a portion of the song, “God Bless the U.S.A.” by Lee Greenwood. I actually began to sing: “I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The streets were a writhing mass of panic. I remember looking down from the 8th floor of a Washington, D.C., office building and seeing, literally, the city – hundreds of people in business suits, dresses and ties – clawing at each other and the air, desperately trying to make ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rep Maxine Waters, who has been quite critical of the Obama Administration as of late, has come out to express her support for the jobs bill proposed by President Barack Obama last week. Maxine Waters told TheRoot.com that she believes that the bill holds promise and should be supported. I think it ...