(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you heard about the changes in credit card rules? Well, here are some key changes you should expect from your credit card company that begin on February 22, 2010. To read more details, visit FederalReserve.gov. When they plan to increase your rate or other fees. Your credit card company must send you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Equity rich but cash poor Black households hardest hit by the crippling subprime lending scheme have benefited less than predatory financial institutions from stimulus dollars meant to help them recover, fair lending advocates and loan modification analysts say. President Barack Obama created the Making Home Affordable Program as part of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A favorite dead horse is deglamorizing thug behavior. It’s tiresome seeing folks shovel themselves into the criminal justice system and afterward cry foul. Never saw the benefit of badly playing hands dealt from marked decks. Giving ourselves felony records and vacuuming money into correctional coffers is too costly. Instant access ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You would think that Myron Rolle, the NFL super-stud who also happens to be a Rhodes Scholar, would be the kind of man who makes us proud. You would expect that his status as being the man who represents the future of the black athlete in America would make ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Comparing Tiger Woods and the scandal he’s embroild in to the personal and professional savaging that Muhammad Ali suffered is more than insulting. “Boxing is nothing, just satisfying to some bloodthirsty people. I’m no longer a Cassius Clay, a Negro from Kentucky. I belong to the world, the Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama is quietly moving forward with a plan for black America. He’s just not talking about it. It’s probably a good idea. Obama has been criticized recently – particularly by commentator Tavis Smiley – for not speaking out directly on behalf of African-Americans and failing to specifically ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Where is the Black John Walsh? He’s the host of the America’s Most Wanted show and publicizes open cases weekly. Our victims should be put on blast by enlisting the community in its own security. Those silent about suffering condone more to come. Beyond simply locking people up is another ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’d like to ask you a quick question that I ask my students here at Syracuse University. It is also a question I had to honestly ask myself when I thought I was on top of the world after spending 12 years going through college and graduate school to ...