(ThyBlackMan.com) Within days of the October 7 deadline for public comment on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed payday rule, 104 Members of Congress from 32 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands together called for strong consumer protections, and an end to both regulatory loopholes and predatory debt ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mental disorders are more stressful to deal with when there is no family or friend to comfort you during the times that you feel down the most. The cost of the medication and the treatments can take a toll on your overall well-being as well and may even make things ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A few weeks ago I read Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump assert that President Barack Obama was the founder, or creator of ISIS. I just wanted to say for the record, I could not let this mistruth, as any mistruth stated by a politician regardless of party, pass without clarifying ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Birth of a Nation is about Nat Turner as an enslaved Baptist preacher who lives on a Virginia plantation owned by Samuel Turner. With rumors of insurrection in the air, a cleric convinces Samuel that Nate should sermonize to other slaves, thereby quelling any notions of an uprising. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At the time of writing, BOAN (an acronym for Birth of a Nation) is trending. Not because of the film itself. Or even directly because of the controversy surrounding Nate Parker — its star, director, executive producer, and head writer. But because it performed below most expectations, which is being ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sexual boasting, emails, tax returns, deplorables — the second presidential debate Sunday featured insults wrapped up in put-downs. This debate was held within miles of Ferguson, Mo., but it was never mentioned. The citizens who offered questions asked about issues — health care, the Supreme Court, energy. The moderators ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles-based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Ninety-three percent of Detroit’s predominantly black public school eighth-graders are not proficient in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have always been a great fan of the idea of “enterprise zones,” originally introduced by the late Rep. Jack Kemp in 1980. Jack Kemp and I were of one mind that free markets and enterprise are the way to reduce poverty, rather than government spending programs. Kemp’s plan ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A group of Black doctors in Los Angeles and throughout California have been waging a long, valiant, and lonely fight against a practice which has had disastrous effects on the quality of medical care in poor, and underserved communities and harmful consequences for the doctors. The practice is medical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you are about to turn 30, your 20’s are behind you, therefore, the habits that you had in your 20’s should be put behind you as well. If you get over these habits, you can help yourself live a happier, healthier life. #1 Smoking Cigarettes Studies have shown that ...