(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week I attended a very nice reception hosted by two of my friends, Rosa Whitaker and Bernadette Paolo.  Rosa is CEO and President of the Whitaker Group, a Washington, D.C.- based consultancy specializing in trade and investment in Africa.  She previously served as the first Assistant U.S. Trade ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “It’s time to give America a Raise!” With these words, President Barack Obama called for Congress to raise the minimum wage from its current rate of $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour over the next two years. Furthermore, the President is proposing indexing the minimum wage to inflation ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you ever noticed someone watching you? You know it because you can almost feel it in your bones. The moment you look around and determine who it is that is watching the next question generally is why were they watching you? In my book entitled, “Life Lessons For My Sons”, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) From a boss who yells, to friends who take advantage of your generosity, it seems some people have no problem stepping over the line–stressing you out in the process. But you don’t have to put up with it. De-stressing your life by setting boundaries is a decision you can ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 was the ninth comet, whose orbital period is 200 years or less, that was discovered by astronomers Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker (husband & wife), and their teammate David Levy. The Fourth Day was the only day of Creation Week which was shown to Moses, in which ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Does living the Thug Life really pay? It was yesterday when I caught the news online (I don’t really ever watch television anymore) about the arrest of Florida Rapper Trick Daddy on several charges which included possession of cocaine and possession of a weapon and ammunition. A Broward County ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In light of what most of us know about the economy and where Black people fit, mostly as consumers rather than producers, a discussion of Black Capitalism is in order. The term was promoted by Stokley Carmichael in 1966 as part of the “Black Power” movement, but came into ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I used to cringe every time I heard a black woman cry about a black man they saw with someone from a different ethnic group. It used to literally make me nauseas because, to me, it assumed that just because people have the same outside wrapping means that they’re ...