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(ThyBlackMan.com) Nearly half of American homeowners — 47%, according to a December 2025 Rocket Mortgage survey of 1,018 homeowners — said they would finance a $20,000 renovation rather than pay from personal savings. That number deserves a second look, because “financing a renovation” is not a single financial decision. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I believe you need to know that you are valuable! So many of us in today’s society are discounted and written off as unworthy. But, God has instructed me to let you know that to Him you are more valuable than you can compute! We look at our economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bible has the knack for cutting through the fog of uncertainty and ambivalence and getting to the heart of the matter with a directness and clarity that is awesome. If people saw the Bible for what it really is – a roadmap to the heart and the mind ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you are of a certain age, you were told growing up that, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The earliest known public use of this proverb or adage was on March 22, 1862, in The Christian Recorder newspaper. The Christian Recorder ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Philadelphia 76ers have assembled one of the most aggressive roster overhauls of this NBA offseason, and the biggest piece arrived Friday morning when a 41 year old free agent decided where he would continue playing. Man, listen. I have been watching this brother play professional ball since my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump ran as the “peace candidate” bodaciously claiming he would stop the existing wars and promising no new forever wars and an era of peace and prosperity. Many people who were weary of war fell for his lies and false promises. He said he would intervene to put ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) American memory rarely allows complicated men to stay complicated, and few figures in our history have been flattened more thoroughly than the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. I came up hearing two versions of Booker T. Washington, and neither one sounded like a human being. In my grandmother’s front ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of today’s consumer loans are legal but abusive. Payday lenders and used car sellers often steer customers into costly contracts they barely understand. Low-income borrowers with jobs, and therefore, dependable cash flow to siphon off, are favored targets. Sure, there’s a sucker born every minute, as P.T. Barnum ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2024, two hotels and several residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district sued the city, alleging it is using the neighborhood as a containment zone for rampant illegal drug use and other vices, making the residents terrified to leave their homes and businesses unable to recruit staff. According to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The most persistent weakness in our political tradition is no shortage of talent or courage, but a habit of waiting on one anointed figure to carry an entire race across the finish line. I have been voting since Carter, and I have watched this cycle spin around more times ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In righteously remembering and retrieving the enduring legacy of Nana Ida B. Wells- Barnett, we practice the morality of remembrance, honoring a womanist warrior who troubled and transformed the life-shaping waters of the world. She was an awesome ancestor, one of those whose name we will always honor, whose ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The New York City Public School system is 62% Black and Hispanic. At its eight most prestigious competitive high schools, 80% of the students are Asian or White. Wait — what’s considered the most selective of the city’s schools, Stuyvesant High, 777 students were offered slots. Of those, how ...
