(ThyBlackMan.com) We live in a relationship reality; each day of our lives is shaped by it. Much of who we are – for better or worse – stems from a relationship, whether personal or interpersonal. Our first relationship is with Divinity, God. Absent a relationship with a Higher Power, we are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the doors swung open last week to the nation’s new Museum of African American History and Culture, my organization, CURE, was hosting another separate, but related event. Fifty black pastors from around the nation convened in Washington, D.C., for CURE’s annual Pastor Policy Summit. CURE focuses on market and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why can’t more of us see that economics is the key to our freedom and the answer to the problems we talk about all the time? This political year has and continues to bring this fact to light, but the Colin Kaepernick protest illuminates the issue of economics even more. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As my readers know, I don’t pay much attention to polls. I think they are a total waste of time and have proven to be extremely inaccurate over the past few years. According to polls, Mitt Romney should have been president after the 2012 elections. Just as the polls have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Florida Department of Education initiative: Dads Take Your Child to School Day! The Department of Family and Community Engagement is partnering on this initiative. This event is similar to the Million Father March that was held on the first day of school nationally. As part of this initiative, fathers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in the 1960s, as large numbers of black students were entering a certain Ivy League university for the first time, someone asked a chemistry professor — off the record — what his response to them was. He said, “I give them all A’s and B’s. To hell with them.” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We here at ThyBlackMan have been in favor of e-cigarettes as a quit-smoking method, and have voiced our opinion on the matter on a few occasions. Vaping with the likes of VUSE or Blu e-Cigs allows users to wean themselves off nicotine addiction progressively, making it a much gentler, safer ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once upon a time ago, a cruel and barbarous colonial power came to Africa with its friends to rape and pillage and murder and spread disease. The year was 1839 and through the nefarious barrel of cannon, France forced the signature of a treaty with local chiefs that gave it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are two goals in life that seem to run concurrently for most people. Most people want to have money. Most people want to be healthy. These aren’t two goals that are unlinked, either. In ways that are both real and totally societal, they have a lot of influence on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is the cost of your health too high? The simple answer is that staying healthy shouldn’t cost you anything. It should be free. But unfortunately, that’s not the world we live in. Even in countries where healthcare is ‘free,’ it’s still paid for by the consumer. Either through taxation or ...