(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s a moral imperative that all Black children learn to read, not just be functionally literate, but learn to become active, critical readers capable of comprehension of how new ideas and facts change your understanding of what you know or what you thought you knew. I’ve been reflecting on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Biden delivered a message and a warning to our country in a speech that I, along with many others, wholeheartedly agree with: “Any country that out educates us will out-compete us.” He is entirely correct. However, while his words are vital and motivating, they must be accompanied by actions. Biden delivered this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When one thinks of a career in healthcare, one often thinks of all the training and education that goes into these positions. For example, to become a doctor, you have to go through about 12 years of schooling, plus a few years of residency. This can make entering a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The New York Times recently reported that the public health system in the United States may be less prepared for the next pandemic than it was for the current one. Given everything we have been through, and everything we have learned, how can that be? The answer is disturbing. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Congress debates over critical early childhood investments, I am reminded of 1971 when earlier efforts to enact a comprehensive child care system were toppled by regressive politics and am determined not to allow our nation to repeat the mistakes of the past. Fifty years ago a national moral ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before I decided to commit myself to a career as a journalist, I worked in the trenches as a high school teacher in two departments: English and Religion. Later, I would become an adjunct professor at several colleges in Chicago and then in Atlanta. Because the world was changing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We believe in rationality, the notion that there is a logical explanation for everything. The ancients believed that there were unseen forces, gods, that completely control and direct everything in the world and all that it contains. And so, they believed that the gods foreshadowed, so to speak, their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have changed the college landscape and have provided a significant return on investment. Our country cannot reach its goals without strong, viable, sustainable HBCUs – goals necessary to close the education gap, health, wealth and economic gaps. HBCUs were founded to educate the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, most of us have been consumed with conversations surrounding the “Build Back Better” budget plan that President Joe Biden campaigned on. His is a much-needed plan that will cut taxes and lower costs for working families, create much-needed jobs and address income inequality. His proposal centers on restructured ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “While HBCUs today look quite different from the schools that were founded in the 1800s, HBCUs now find themselves in a continuing conversation on whether these institutions should exist in a post–Brown v. Board of Education and post-Obama environment. The relevancy of HBCUs has been the subject of academic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am an advocate and proponent of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. I am a witness to their power and purpose. HBCUs take the rough and the smooth and make us valuable contributors to the world. It has been that way since the founding of the first HBCU (Cheyney ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black literature has been gaining popularity for as long as black people’s voices needed to be heard. These books have focused on almost every aspect of African American life, from racism to revolutions that society needs. They give details from the eyes of a black men and women. A ...