(ThyBlackMan.com) Why is Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a neck and neck run-off for re-election? He enjoys national press attention, advertises the endorsement of hometown favorite, President Obama, brandishes a $30 million-plus campaign war chest, largely funded by 100 or so major donors, and mobilizes wall-to-wall advertising and a professional campaign team. ...

(No One Wins In Bullying ) Bullying, harassment and violence has understandably created a need for clarification on what bullying is and a priority to stop it. The personal accounts of bullying and cyberbullying, hospital records, police reports, investigations by the State Attorney’s Office and videos taken of violence inflicted ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) All of us are students in life and we will be for the rest of our lives. We are always learning (or we should be). We are always making mistakes, the necessary ones and the avoidable one. But today our academic system in this country is far below what ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Working toward your degree in public administration today means that you have real time access to important examples of the challenges and rewards associated with modern public leadership. Protests and uprisings across the world offer insight into the changing relationship between leaders and the public worldwide. There is no ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, Lindsay Lohan made news for tweeting the n-word. I’ve been told that she was tweeting one of Kanye West’s lyrics. Madonna, whom I adored as my own personal cone bra’d freedom fighter since middle school, also had a similar social media debacle. Kanye using this word in a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I went through the most difficult challenge of my life, I made these five commitments that helped me come back better and not bitter. I shared them in a subsequent book, Where Will You Go From Here? Moving forward when life doesn’t go as planned. I will not ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) We’ve heard a lot about rape culture on college campuses and seen quite a few highly determined domestic violence and sexual assault advocates fighting on behalf of those who are affected.  But it’s hard not to conclude that much of their dismay toward the culture of rape and violence ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently World Changers Ministries where Creflo Dollar is Pastor released an infomercial and a request for “believers” to give a total of over $60 million dollars so they could buy a new Gulfstream Jet. Apparently the old jet has worn out and “Pastor needs a brand new jet”. So ...