(ThyBlackMan.com) As we prepare for the unveiling of the Washington memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is important that we take a second to contextualize this extraordinary event. Dr. King deserves to be celebrated next to other great heroes of American history, and it is a proud testament ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The stench of racism is still poignant. In fact, it may be nearing the levels of intensity experienced during the 60’s. I know about racism as a native of Tuskegee & Montgomery, Alabama. The cradle of southern racism. One would think that we have made progress, but the ugly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ralph Nader is as predictable as the sun rising in the Sahara in July. He wasted no time in jumping all over President Obama following the debt ceiling deal. He made his by now standard plea for someone to challenge Obama in a Democratic primary campaign, or better still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In February 2011 a housing segregation study conducted by researchers from Brown University and Florida State University based on the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data concluded that two New York suburban counties on Long Island, Nassau County and Suffolk County, are jointly the seventh most racially segregated major metropolitan ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An 18-year old student at the University of Cincinnati was killed this weekend after being stunned by a police taser. Everette Howard, a student in a summer program preparing him for college, died after the attack. Friends say that Howard was trying to break up a fight in front ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There was a saying a few years back that served many of us well: “Poor planning on YOUR part does not necessarily constitute an emergency on MY part!” Just as one does not seek to run a marathon, enter into a marriage, or start a business without preparing for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no right more precious in our nation than the right of citizens to cast a ballot on Election Day. That is why generations of Americans have sacrificed and even died in efforts to expand the right to vote. Yet across the country, powerful corporate interests and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Playing the race card is no longer working for the Democratic Party. That stunning pronouncement was made by Bernard Goldberg, author of “A Slobbering Love Affair”. This momentous turn of events highlighted by Goldberg was welcome news to us in the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) who launched our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Social Security is indeed a Ponzi scheme” – Texas Governor Rick Perry, November 2010. Social Security is one of Americans’ most important safety-nets. The current Social Security program is a mainstay for women. Women are 52 percent of all adult beneficiaries, including retirees, the disabled, and the survivors of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, the Pew study that found that African-American households lost about 53% of inflation-adjusted median wealth during the Great Recession was released. Instead of focusing on what we’ve lost. Let’s take a look at what we can do to build our net worth. Understand, and agree to, everything ...