(ThyBlackMan.com) This past holiday season people are excited about new technologies in watches, phones, glasses, headphones and other digital devices. Parents are shopping online for their children, grandchildren and other family members to get the latest and greatest devices. Being connected has exploded to an obsession to have the latest ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Competition for employment, internships, scholarships, grants and other forms of financial assistance and entrance into higher education has grown tremendously in the past years. HBCU students should understand that digital tools and resources that aid in obtaining/starting a professional career should be gained and seen as an investment. Social ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Communication is one of the most important aspects of the modern business landscape. You have to think about how your business is going to communicate with customers and employees alike. If you fail to do this, your business could have trouble in the future. Here are is how communicating ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week I was reflecting on how to better help the Republican Party get more Blacks engaged in the party and ended up taking a mental stroll down memory lane. In my freshman year in college at Oral Roberts University, my freshman textbook for my English class was Language ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Millions of people around the world are familiar with the hypnotic rhythms of reggae that originated from Jamaica, a small colonial island in the Caribbean Sea. Reggae is what propelled the ideology of Rastafari to the world through the melodious, socially conscious tunes of Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Dennis ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A few years ago, BET had a commentary titled “Where Are the Grocery Stores in Black Neighborhoods?” One wonders whether anyone thinks that the absence of supermarkets in predominantly black neighborhoods means that white merchants do not like dollars coming out of black hands. Racial discrimination cannot explain the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Those who’ve wondered how, after the Civil War abolished slavery, America became – while a democracy in rhetorical terms – in reality an apartheid state should be paying close attention to the machinations of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. They’ve been providing example after example of how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s a horrific what if in the months after November 9, 2016. That’s the day after the presidential election and the winner is declared. The nomination and confirmation of one, two, maybe even three more Antonin Scalias and Clarence Thomas’s to the Supreme Court. The quick repeal of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s get right to the point. Do not be distracted by the rhetoric that gun violence is overtaking this country. This country, ironically, was conceived in violence brought about by Caucasian people fleeing Europe, killing native Americans and enslaving Africans for hundreds of years. Nobody said there was a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, XXLMAG.com released a list of the five biggest dance crazes of 2015. Of the five dances listed, “The Quan” accompanied by the song Hit The Quan by iHeartMemphis and the “Whip/Nae Nae” accompanied by the song Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) by Silento, were the two obvious choices for this year’s top dances. For kids ...