(ThyBlackMan.com) African-American dads have been long characterized as unloving and uncaring towards their children, as such they are not given the benefit of a doubt, a few bad apples have destroyed the tree it seems, and black dads have been called unworthy fathers, but this writer begs to differ after ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Investors tune in with bated breath every time the Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen makes an announcement. Given the historically low interest rates that have been the norm since 2006, investors constantly speculate on when the Fed will decide to raise interest rates and by how much. Whether you’re ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Rwandan Refugees all over the world celebrate the World Refugee day,it is better to highlight why Rwandans cannot return home.” The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. “-Albert Einstein.Rwanda will never reach the real democracy if we don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Arthur Jones, Jr. is my father. I declare that loudly and proudly. My dad is a very good man. That’s not just my so-not-humble opinion – it also happens to be a fact. My father has taught me more life lessons than I can begin to count. My dad ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you remember “Airwolf”? “Airwolf” was the Donald P. Bellasario-produced television series for CBS that ran from 1984 through 1987. Airwolf itself was a high-tech, well-armed, supersonic helicopter flown by the show’s protagonists to tip the Cold War to America’s advantage. I was a big fan of “Airwolf.” Even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) WE ARE NOT BLACK. Black is the color of my car tires. I am brown and African American. f you believe in creation, the Garden of Eden was the beginning for all of us – and it was in a place where people of color dwelled. It was not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Prior to 1967, nothing in America could get a Black man murdered faster than the catchword “rape.” Nowadays, “Black man with a gun,” may be topping the charts. In May of ’67, quite a few college educated, gun-toting Black Panthers, exercising their rights to bear arms, uninvitingly entered the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Upon first hearing the rumblings that Olympic Medalist Bruce Jenner would begin the transition of becoming a woman, I brushed it off as idle gossip and media foolery. After all, the headlines graced the covers of tabloid magazines known more for their sensationalism than for their journalistic integrity, or for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How do we honestly determine the value if an African American man – a real one? Slave society once determined his value by how many women he could impregnate. But then that same society which bread him to be promiscuous, also put him down because he was just that. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Speaking at the PCBC conference in Tampa, Florida over 1200 middle and high schools students attended from the Urban Leagues throughout the state of Florida, attending the 30th Annual Conference of this educational and motivational conference. Attended by law enforcement personnel from across the state as well, provided students ...