(ThyBlackMan.com) Although African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans represent roughly 30 percent of the population, they fill only 3 percent of senior management positions at American corporations, according to Management Leadership for Tomorrow, a minority recruitment and development group. Don Thompson of McDonald’s is one of only six black CEOs of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, I had the pleasure of traveling to Ghana for 10 days to explore the history and culture of the region. And contrary to America’s heightened fear that traveling to West Africa would give me Ebola, I am fortunate to reassure you that I am happy and healthy. Now ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This week many Americans will be going to the polls to cast their ballot in this year’s midterm election. The importance of a midterm elections, some believe, is that it is a referendum on the popularity of the standing president and his policies. This epic battle is played out ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week I wrote about The New Fab Five as a solution to bring revenue and prestige back to HBCUs’. In it I wrote how the lack of top athletes attending and giving back to these schools have crippled these schools from becoming the equivalent of their white counterparts. While ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black folks lead the nation in church-going, praise-dancing, shouting, call-and-response, and “whoopin.” We like to “get our church on” and feel good while we are there. We do our holy dances and run down the aisles to lay our money at the feet of preachers, some of whom “anoint” ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My friend Chuck Creekmur runs Allhiphop.com, one of the leading hip-hop news websites in the country.  I love remaining connected to the site because I truly believe that if we are to critique hip-hop music, we should be able to understand and appreciate it.  It is the lack of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A few months ago I hired a new coach, presumably to help me navigate the multiple transitions I’ve enjoyed this year and to get clarity of my vision moving forward. Several times over the last few months, I hung up with my business coach feeling – to be blunt ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The closer Election Day gets, the more confused I am by the behavior of Democrats. For the past several years, there has been this false obsession with the importance of the Hispanic vote. All you hear in the media and from the political pundits is “the Hispanic vote, the ...