(ThyBlackMan.com)  5th Annual ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Day will shine positive light on the Motor City… We all need role models to successfully reach a productive, peaceful destination as we navigate through the journey of life. As a child, I was blessed with two loving parents, who instilled in me an ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Are you and your mate at wits’ end about how to accomplish everything your family needs done each day? Do you irritate each other over housework and parenting duties? Are you dropping balls because there just aren’t enough hours in the day? Maybe it’s time to bring in some ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Do not talk at me. Talk to me.  Please do not use words to distract me from what I need to say and what you need to listen to. “Listen, Sir/Ma’am.” Clearing throat, “Sir/Ma’am excuse me.” “Mr./Ms. May I ask?” Her voice.  My voice.  Does she still have a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com)  While I was in attendance at the Blogging While Brown I was reminded of how many people say they want to do something but never completing it over finish the task. I looked around at all of these great bloggers in attendance and realized that my idea of doing instead ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I  spent a lot of my childhood wondering why so many white people hate Black people. I wondered why all the other colonized, brainwashed people of color (who white folks also despise) hate Black people. Most of all, I wondered why so many Black people hate being Black and presumably/most ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As the first semi-Muslim, non-citizen African-Americanesque President, Barack Obama has set a precedent that can neither be overlooked nor repeated.  More literally, his re-election is one that cannot be repeated.  I must say though, I feel somewhat duped – short-changed, if you will, with his term.  Granted, I never ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau begins operations, the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) is releasing new findings on the growth and effects of a new short-term and high-cost loan product. Big Bank Payday Loans, a new CRL research brief, details how mainstream banks have entered the triple-digit interest ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing oriented’ society to a ‘person oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit ...