(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Ben Carson’s shoot from the lip, crackpot quips, digs, and insults at women, blacks, Democrats, and especially President Obama are fast becoming the stuff of legend. This time he almost outdid his past inane cracks with the zinger that the Affordable Care Act is worse than slavery. Carson ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) STEAM is a growing educational initiative that encourages hands-on learning that is student centered in learning and teachers as facilitators not lecturers.  The involvement  of Scientific inquiry using experimentation, integration of  diverse Technologies to meet the needs of diverse learning  modalities, using design strategies for problem solving in Engineering, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Financial experts talk all the time about the importance of wealth, but remember that amassing wealth doesn’t happen all at once. According to Pew, there’s a significant discrepancy in wealth among different age groups. People ages 65 and older hold on average $170,494 in wealth; ages 55-64 hold $162,065; ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) To use a football analogy, it’s the end of the 4th quarter. The United States of America is out of timeouts. Our leaders are either filled with ideas or completely out of ideas depending on your perspective. Everyone in the crowd is standing on their feet – and experiencing ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) On October 11, 2002, we lost a great Black leader to an assassin’s bullet. Who was he? Stop reading right now and see if you can answer. If you cannot, then you are one of the reasons I am writing this article. While this is my annual dedication to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Forgive me for using what might appear to be corny analogies, but I find that the creation of a new idea is a lot like giving birth to a child.  There is a process through which the idea is conceived, perhaps through an interaction with another person or some ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “If I can’t have you nobody can!  I’ll kill you before I’ll see you with his filthy hands on you!!!”  So goes the insane cry of the man who sees his spouse or lover as a possession, rather than another human being.  It is the cry that usually precedes ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) After a whirlwind five weeks in which I traveled to 10 cities – from Boston to Dallas to Las Vegas to Barbados – I welcomed a week with no travel. After a day off on Tuesday, my brain still wasn’t quite ready to go back to work. So around ...