(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week’s midterm elections were historic. Republicans regained control of the U.S. Senate, increased their majority in the House, and expanded their majority among governors. While these gains were historic and impressive, there was a bigger story that no one is talking about. According to early polling figures, Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Midterm elections are typically viewed as a mandate for or against the party that is currently in power. As a result of this year’s fallout the Democratic Party, by losing control of the Senate, has all but given away any semblance of real power on Capitol Hill other than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The national unemployment rate for October “dropped to 5.8 percent” and the media is heralding this as great news. However, it is not great news for every worker group in the labor force. The recovery from the 2008 downturn has been spotty and benefited different working groups in different ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Remember when body imaging challenges almost always only depicted a female standing in a mirror tugging at the stomach or squeezing at the thighs? Those images were heartfelt on so many levels because as the audience looking in, what we saw was that of a very healthy looking woman, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before the late, great Dorothy Height passed away, she asked President Barack Obama to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court. But, to date, no one has ever seriously considered the idea of a black woman having this important role. This is a complete disgrace and a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black Enterprise Magazine is one of the most respected black publications in the country. I’ve followed them for years, and will continue to do so in the future. But a lot of people on social media were taken aback when an image of a “Black Mount Rushmore” was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congratulations, Republicans. I mean that in a completely sincere and genuine place. You came, you saw, you dominated on this past Tuesday. To call the results of this Election Day a clean sweep doesn’t begin to describe what actually happened. Succinctly put, the Democratic Party got decimated locally, statewide, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not here to preach unless someone is interested in making this into a sermon. I’m just here to admit that I am three things: 1) A black man, 2) an educator and 3) a Finance Professor, in that order. I’ve watched a lot of brothers with serious ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “My creation/is it real?/It’s my creation—I do not know/No hesitation—no heart of gold/Just flesh and blood—I do not know.” So goes the chorus of the insanely catchy Oingo Boingo pop tune, “Weird Science.” Of course, that song comes from the hilarious 1985 John Hughes movie of the same name. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I want to share this with the american people, this is an issue that is personal to me and should be personal to all the rest of us because we all are victims of it. And this is what I have come to realize from experiencing it myself. The ...