(ThyBlackMan.com) If you were among the millions out of work at any point in 2010, your tax return may look quite different this year. Many people fail to realize that they must pay taxes on unemployment benefits. For 2010 all unemployment benefits received will be considered taxable income. That is ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.” -Muhammad Ali DJ Kool Herc, The Godfather of Hip-Hop, the first to loop beaks and develop the beat style that set the foundation of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Today, I ran into a good friend I’ve known since college. In addition to being happy to see him, he stunned me with two shocking facts. The first was that this year marks the 40th anniversary of us entering college. The second was that he was diabetic, and experiencing the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Launch of 104 year old historically African-American fraternity’s efforts to expand globally… The world’s oldest intercollegiate fraternity founded by African American men has established its first chapter in South Africa. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. in 1906,  chartered Rho Phi Lambda Chapter, in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s far from definitive proof, but new research raises concern about diet soda, finding higher risks for stroke and heart attack among people who drink it everyday versus those who drink no soda at all. The beverage findings should be “a wakeup call to pay attention to diet sodas,” said ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Even stel­lar rela­tion­ships lose their spark over time. Here are the ingre­di­ents of a last­ing, fruit­ful part­ner­ship, and tech­niques for weath­er­ing the stormy periods. Joy, pas­sion, great sex: when a cou­ple heads into mar­riage, this is what they have in mind. Of course they want their rela­tion­ship to last—but with­out ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Roll out the red carpet. The 2010 tax season will probably introduce a star-studded cast of tax evaders, many of whom are already on the IRS’s blacklist. These celeb tax dodgers help contribute (at least in a small way) to what the IRS estimates to be a $290 billion tax ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The number of black-owned businesses grew much faster than the national rate during the five years before the recession began, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The ranks of black firms shot up more than 60 percent from 2002 to 2007, compared with the overall national ...