(ThyBlackMan.com) There is little question in most academic research that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in unemployment. The debatable issue is the magnitude of the increase. An issue not often included in minimum wage debates is the substitution effects of minimum wage increases. The substitution effect might ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A tribute to our past, present and future. Here’s to the winner in all of us!   When dealing with controversial issues, we often allow our emotions to overshadow our powers of reason. Thus, the debate as to whether Black History should extend beyond its timeframe, pits innovators against traditionalists, with ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) With the government, the courts and the local law enforcement of this country painting targets on the foreheads of African Americans, are we aware of what is happening and how? A better question is how are African Americans contributing to our own demise as a people? Those who seek to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, the mainstream news media has attacked alternative news sites that put out actual information about real issues that are going on in the world by calling them “fake news” when in fact, THEY (mainstream news media) are the biggest culprits of perpetuating fake news for over several hundred years, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In the African-American community there is a cloistered way of silence when it comes to certain topics. We don’t like discussing it for various reasons and at times it’s caused drama because you have that particular family member(s) that tend to run their mouths about stuff that is not their ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Doing business, day after day, without any interruption is by no means guaranteed. Things can and do go wrong which can threaten a business and bring it to its knees, whether it’s a natural disaster or a man-made one. For this reason, companies need to be prepared, and employees have ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In earlier columns I’ve talked about the natural rights that every person has, from birth. The first and most fundamental of these is the right to life. The right to life would be meaningless without the inherent right to defend yourself against attack. You have the absolute right to do ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Mainstream”.  We are having a country-wide civics lesson on who is or is not out of our mainstream: Senate Democrats or the Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he’ll fight “tooth and nail” against any Supreme Court nominee who’s outside the mainstream, and many of ...