(ThyBlackMan.com) Despite the advancement we’ve endured over the last 50 years, generational poverty and financial illiteracy continue to run rampant in the Black community. We’ve been able to earn substantially more over time and yet fiscally we remain disproportionately behind our counterparts. If financial education tops the list for why a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Anyone hoping President Barack Obama’s 2012 federal spending plan would suddenly reverse his previous course and target increased revenue towards helping black America will be sorely disappointed. In his $3.73 trillion budget submitted to Congress yesterday, the president shows that he still believes the best way to help black America ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The first decade of the new millennium brought a lot of things that the world didn’t expect: the ability to order a pizza on your home computer, cell phones that allow you to talk to your friends face-to-face, and our nation’s first black president. One other unexpected event of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As millions of people have filed for bankruptcy protection in recent years, many Americans want to know how to rebuild their credit rating after a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy. One perennial question I’m often asked is: What is a good credit card to obtain in order to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Society insists that black folks are different from all others races. This has been going on for centuries and is no different today. We are constantly categorized, separated, exploited and have to be “accepted” in certain circles. A late childhood pastor once said that the more we try to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas peppered an attorney with a question during oral arguments on a South Carolina death penalty case. The questioning of an attorney by a Supreme Court Justice would normally not make news but Thomas’s question did, not because it was penetrating, involved a complex point of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My wife and I dated for about 2 years before we got married. We were both in our early 20’s at the time, and both in college when we met. The desire to get married quickly became apparent, but the timing was also essential. Getting married may be the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Breaking life down to its most basic physical components, the meaning of life is merely survival and reproduction. From a purely evolutionary perspective that is all there is. It leaves us, however, meaningless. For thousands of years humans have been asking themselves if there is something more to life ...