(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been working on a project with MSN called “The Invested Life” over the past several months. One of the things that came up on a regular basis was dealing with the passing of a loved one, and how this might affect us all financially. The person I worked ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent news that senior citizens and others won’t be getting an increase in their Social Security checks in 2011 caused groans among all recipients. But not receiving a Social Security cost-of-living adjustment will hit African Americans and Latinos particularly hard. That’s because African Americans and Latinos rely on ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) CreditCards.com has a nice article out on 9 Credit Score Myths That Do More Harm than Good. Some of the myths they debunk include: • Closing out old, inactive accounts will help your score • Opening (but not using) accounts will help your score • Paying off old debts ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently read a very interesting story about how so many black athletes are being hammered by the financial devastation of child support.  Their paychecks are getting zapped to nothing, only to buy Coach purses and hair weaves for the women who’ve had their children.  Perhaps the sex was good ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine how bad it would be for business as usual if Black folks fought crime via prevention and intervention with evangelical zeal?   Such an outbreak of hood conservatism would have unintended consequences.   Police chiefs would have to submit lower budgets; Sheriffs would complain about less inmate dollars ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Nearly every Democratic freshman and many seasoned Democratic congressional representatives have one recurring nightmare about November. And it’s not that blacks won’t vote for them, but that they’ll be MIA at the polls. In interview after interview with legions of Democrats that are feeling the heat from Republican challengers and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Asking a woman for her phone number can sometimes be a difficult, even scary thing. After all, just being in the presence of a woman you are attracted to can be enough to get the old ticker pounding. Add to that her well intentioned, but thorough, grilling of you ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t think it will surprise anyone to hear me say that I’m a mad Black man right about now. I’m angry that the image of Black men in America is once again, under attack. There has been one new stereotype added to the paradigm over the past few decades-the ...