(ThyBlackMan.com) Summer break is at a conclusion, Labor Day festivities, traveling, cookouts, parties, and all the fun thrown in; the “business of education” begins for many schools across the nation. 180 days of learning, 180 days of educational strategies, curriculums, differential instruction, ESOL, Benchmarks, Common Core, reading initiates, state assessments ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, the Republican National Committee, under the leadership of its chairman, Reince Priebus, did something that has never been done before in the history of the Republican Party. Their feat was so astonishing and yet few in the media is writing or talking about it. Priebus hosted a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A million fathers needed to help raise confident, intelligent, positive, motivated and stable young ladies. Research has shown that a father’s involvement in the academic lives of their children will last beyond their childhood; in fact their influence will expand well into the child’s early adult lives (Rosenberg & ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Within moments after President Barack Obama bluntly indicated that he was ready and willing to strike Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces for its alleged mass chemical attack on civilians, dozens of the most liberal House Democrats signed a letter warning him to tread very carefully on any Syrian action. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jaylen Bledsoe is a one-of-kind superstar. The 15-year old sophomore started his own tech company a few years ago, and has found entrepreneurship to be his calling. As a result, he is his own man, and a millionaire because of it. Jaylen Bledsoe says that he started his firm ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The other day, I was speaking to an amazing spoken word artist by the name of Madam Prezident. She was asking me a question about relationships, and how modern media has come to shape the dating preferences of men and women in their twenties. I’m not one to give ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In watching today’s activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech I am reminded of the part of the speech that doesn’t get mentioned quite as much. “In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The funny thing about so-called “black leadership” is that much of our perception of black public figures is controlled and managed by predominantly white media. Therefore, it is no coincidence that nearly every prominent black person who speaks firmly for the rights of African Americans has been typecast as ...