(ThyBlackMan.com) Unequal access to high-quality health services is one of the most pervasive problems in America’s healthcare system. Far too often, communities of color face reduced access, higher costs, and less comprehensive care and support than their predominately white counterparts. While this has been a growing cause for concern for decades, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whoa, folks! The recent kerfuffle over Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio has really got me going. This ain’t your average small-town drama — it’s a window into some seriously messed-up stuff plaguing our nation. A Perfect Storm Brewing Picture this: sleepy Midwestern burg suddenly thrust into limelight. Why? Some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are at a crucial crossroad in this country. As we approach the upcoming presidential election, we are faced with a major conundrum; do we vote, who do we vote for, is voting relevant and will voting actually solve anything. I do believe voting in local elections is important ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears Cicley Gay, and Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) want no part, of helping American workers, and especially Black American workers economically, who have an August 10.6% unemployment rate, which places them in a Great Recession. Gay, BLMGNF chair and administrator, says they are in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most unfortunate developments of my nearly half-century association with education as a student and now faculty member has been the steady decline of Black males’ successful engagement with American colleges and universities. Although I would like to attribute my noticing this decline to my entrance into ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One persistent theme coming from the Democrats is that Trump, if elected a second time, would become a dictator and end democracy. For eight years, critics have called Trump an autocrat and likened him to the despised autocrats of the twentieth century, from Mussolini to Hitler. This rhetorical extremism ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The residents of Springfield, Ohio are experiencing the full and unfair effect from the politics of lies, division and hate generated from the Trump campaign and their followers. “We did not have threats” before the claims, said Springfield Mayor Rob Rue, referring to the accusations made by Trump and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” I’d hear this in a few commercials from the Ad Council in the early 1990s. If you don’t know who they are it is an ad company that releases ads intended to deal with issues in society at the time. Over ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the recent presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump reached a new low with his divisive rhetoric. During one of his many off-topic rants, Trump doubled down on an absurd claim being spread on social media and embraced by GOP officials such as Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recent back-to-back financial enforcement actions taken by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) underscore why the nation’s sole agency dedicated to consumer financial fairness retains broad and strong voter support. On September 11, TD Bank, the nation’s 10th largest commercial bank with 1,200 branches and 2,600 ATMs in 15 states and the District ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, some of us took the time to remember that it was the 237th anniversary of our US Constitution, 17 September 1787. Sadly, I do not think most of this country or this republic was aware of this. The week prior, we had a presidential debate in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What kind of spiritual growth have you experienced during the past year? I strongly believe we should ask ourselves that question. If we are serious about growing spiritually, we must at times measure our progress. That’s the only way we will know where we are in our quest to ...