(ThyBlackMan.com) But I must own, to the shame of my own countrymen, that I first was kidnapped and betrayed by some of my own complexion, who were the first cause of my exile and slavery; but if there were no buyers there would be no sellers.” Ottobah Cuogoano, 1787 During ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Responding to the controversy about the network not having a single black female actress on the show, Saturday Night Live did what they do best: Made a parody of it all. The skit featured Kerry Washington and made jokes about how she would have to play every single black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If I am not for myself, who is for me? If I am for myself alone, What am I? If not now, When? Hillel I welcome you to this crisis you find yourself in and thank you for signing up to participate in this madness. You see, we must ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you know that this popular phrase is generally thought of as a British army adage? It was used to accentuate project planning or when training for life or death situations. Educators and trainers in contemporary military or civilian situations found it useful to first introduce the phrase as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m getting pretty excited about our upcoming Coach Training Intensive this weekend in Atlanta. Something came up during our CTI preview call last Monday with my friends Marshawn Evans, LaFern Batie and Kimberly DuBrul, all-star coaches who have built very successful, profitable businesses as coaches. More than 200 of you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In his New York Times best-selling book The Charge, Brendon Burchard writes that people generally live one of three types of life: caged, comfortable and charged. Those who live a caged life are trapped in a tight box of beliefs about what is possible for them. The comfortable are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I grow older, I recall with increasing clarity and gratitude the indelible and enduring lessons that I learned from my parents while growing up in the Arkansas Delta. Although my parents had little schooling, they were literate beyond their formal level of education and blessed with an enormous ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a petition circulated online, change.org minced no words, “NAACP: Hire the First Woman President in the NAACP’s 104-year History.” Seventy percent of the respondents agreed that it was time that the NAACP elected its first permanent woman president in its history to lead the organization. The petition and ...