(ThyBlackMan.com) Happy New Year my fellow Americans. Getting my butt back into the gym is my New Year Resolution. I saw a guy I thought was around my age who looked fantastic, very muscular. He said he was 57; his secret was protein and creatine supplements. As I begin 2015, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A term made popular by the venerable Harold Cruse, noneconomic liberalism is a social strategy which focuses upon political empowerment without adequate attention to economic empowerment. The nascent NAACP, according to Dr. Khalid Tariq Al-Mansour, in his book, Betrayal by Any Other Name, wrote into its constitution a prohibition ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans are overrepresented among the poor, but it would be a mistake to conclude that all African Americans are poor. We are all aware of the seven, eight, and even nine-figure incomes of luminaries such as Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé and Jay Z, hundreds of athletes, tech leaders, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Martin Luther King Holiday provides a great opportunity for reflection, and as we reflect, I challenge all of my brothers to identify a living African American man that can inspire you to strive for greatness in your life. By making this challenge, I do not wish to diminish ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A new born baby is brought into a family where the father is gone and the mother is left to work multiple jobs just to take care of the baby. An easier route would be for the mother to get on welfare and depend on the government to take ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ll be the first to admit that I’m no movie critic. However, “Selma” is one of the best motion pictures I’ve seen in a long time. Have you seen it? If so, you know what I’m talking about. If not, why not? “Selma” is that rarest of films: brutally ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve taught thousands of students on five college campuses over the last 21 years. I’ve seen the very best, and the very worst. Some of my students have gone on to earn millions on Wall Street, and some of them are dead. College can produce more outcomes than one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tuesday, January 6th marked the first day of the 114th United States Congress. By all accounts, it was a comedy of errors. An occasion which offered the Republican Party a new beginning in a new year to demonstrate a new sense of urgency towards addressing America’s simmering issues turned ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “You can make your mouth say anything, but your actions reveal your true intentions.” James Davis The premise on which this economy expanded in the last seven years is based on a United States Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) program called Quantitative Easing (QE). The central bank financed the debt of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The other day, I ran into an older adult woman who used to work at my old elementary school. She quickly came up to me and said “Wow, I expected you to be gone by now!”. I later realized that what this lady meant by “gone” was that she ...