(ThyBlackMan.com) Grambling State University remains in turmoil after football players boycotted the Jackson State University homecoming game to protest unfair conditions on the team. The players are upset with both the firing of their head coach, along with cuts to their funding, among other issues. According to ESPN, Grambling officials contacted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I kind of stumbled into coaching. It seems to happen that way with many things in life that end up purposeful. I think it’s divine orchestration. Twelve years ago, when the Random House edition of my self-published book Rich Minds Rich Rewards came out, I found myself being interviewed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What does restaurant food and mainstream media have in common? Well read on and allow me to show you……. You wouldn’t trust just any stranger to cook you up a meal if you really didn’t know who they were and what they were all about now would you? You ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are two ominous kickers in the deal brokered that ended the GOP manufactured government debt ceiling and partial government shutdown crisis. One is the tight time frames agreed to that would keep the government open until Jan. 15 and the time frame limit extending the debt ceiling to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was born in Los Angeles, and as I gazed upon the representation of the shiny new edifices that’s envisioned as the NEW Leimert Park, I was saddened and felt a profound sense of loss. All those impressive and shiny buildings didn’t fool me for a minute, because I’ve ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Very few of the many, many thousands of Confederate soldiers who died defending slavery actually owned slaves. Most were just poor farmers. Not only were the slave owners few and far between, they were clustered in swiftly moving cavalry units that suffered far fewer casualties than the plodding infantry ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Brain surgeon notwithstanding, Dr. Ben Carson is an idiot. It seems that White conservatives will never learn that by trotting people like Allen West, Herman Cain, or Dr. Ben Carson out before the public, they’re doing themselves a disservice in the Black community. Black people know and understand our own people. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been a fan of Saturday Night Live since I was a child. I enjoyed watching the likes of Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock and many of the other amazing comedians who’ve come through the show over the years. Also, non-black comedians, like Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Chevy Chase and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Ben Carson’s shoot from the lip, crackpot quips, digs, and insults at women, blacks, Democrats, and especially President Obama are fast becoming the stuff of legend. This time he almost outdid his past inane cracks with the zinger that the Affordable Care Act is worse than slavery. Carson ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) STEAM is a growing educational initiative that encourages hands-on learning that is student centered in learning and teachers as facilitators not lecturers. The involvement of Scientific inquiry using experimentation, integration of diverse Technologies to meet the needs of diverse learning modalities, using design strategies for problem solving in Engineering, ...