(ThyBlackMan.com) “Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.” – Carter G. Woodson Carter G. Woodson was born in Virginia, 10 years after the fall of the Confederacy. Working as a sharecropper and a miner, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) One of Donald Trump’s talking points and biggest applause lines is how “they” — Japan, China and Mexico — are “beating us in trade” and are “taking our jobs.” He proposes tariffs, for example, on Chinese goods in retaliation for that country’s alleged “cheating.” To someone who is out ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A couple of years ago I reviewed a book by someone I know called Paid To Think by David Goldsmith. Even though I liked the book and said so, David didn’t quite like the review; hey, can’t win them all. The main concept of the book is the power ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1986 Whitney Houston covered the George Benson hit, The Greatest Love of All, which he originally recorded for a film biography of Muhammad Ali. Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that Houston’s cover gave the “message of self-worth an astounding resonance and conviction…a compelling assertion of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sadly, so many of you are supporting Bernie Sanders for President. Sanders is a self proclaimed socialist. So I must ask you Sanders supporters, do you actually know what socialism is? Do you know that socialism is neither good for you nor good for this country? Do you know ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Is politics still the “art of the possible?” In America, today, it appears as if politics has become the art of the pointless. Congress finally passed a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, along with a defunding of Planned Parenthood, and sent it to President Barack Obama–for veto. None ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The conventional political wisdoms, that’s right wisdoms, not wisdom, about Hillary Clinton before Iowa went like this. One, she bombed badly in Iowa in 2008, losing to both Obama and John Edwards, therefore if she doesn’t do well in Iowa it will be 2008 all over again, and the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Of all the things we need to keep on top of, our finances can seem like the most difficult of tasks. For some, it looks so easy to manage all the different aspects of their money. Others, however, have trouble keeping hold of any money at all. Financial security ...