(ThyBlackMan.com) The jobless rate among black college graduates is nearly double that of whites. Why? For years, Americans have been told that going to college was the best protection against unemployment. That hasn’t been the case for African Americans during the Great Recession, with a jobless rate nearly double that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Never mind a recent New York Times blog citing research that HBCU graduates make less money than other college graduates. As the UNCF’s president and CEO sees it, there’s much value to be found at a black college… To a hammer, goes the saying, the world is a nail. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up while I was in the 4th grade, I would’ve answered, “truck driver”. I had no intentions on ever becoming a truck driver, but at nine-years-old, it was the first thing to come to mind. Sure, deep ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am frustrated. I am caught between a rock and a hard place. I am a black man working in an urban school with kids that have a number of disadvantages. The students that I deal with consist of mainly African American and Latino individuals. I serve my school ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has become a travesty of epic proportions; Black boys are being sent in record numbers to the psychiatrist for mind-altering medications that come with a plethora of side effects. At the heart of the issue are allegations by classrooms teachers, many of them poorly trained at managing trivial off-task ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s about more than Big Bird and Elmo. Public broadcasting is our best hope for telling our own stories… Throughout the proposed budget now before Congress are a host of cuts that could be critical to the well-being of black America. From health care and Social Security to federal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In North Carolina this past Tuesday, Wake County Schools Superintendent Tony Tata seemingly took a stand for poor children when he announced that he would form a task force to reconsider the Tea Party-dominated Wake County school board’s controversial decision in March 2010 to base school assignments for children in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Well, they’ve done it again. Urban Prep Academy of Chicago, an all-male charter school with kids from the “worst” parts of Chicago, is sending 100% of its graduating seniors off to college. The school, founded in 2006, has stated that its continuous objective is to see to it that all ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I went to a class where the professor said if you didn’t appreciate Beethoven, Bach and Brahms, you were culturally depraved, to which I responded, if you didn’t appreciate James Brown, you were culturally deprived.” – Gloria Ladson-Billings As a recent documentary film suggests, many parents and educators have been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During a four-year college career, most students take roughly 40 courses. Personally, I went to graduate school for another seven years after college, taking an additional 40 to 50 more classes. During my entire undergraduate, masters and doctoral experience, I never had one African American professor. This experience made ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Launch of 104 year old historically African-American fraternity’s efforts to expand globally… The world’s oldest intercollegiate fraternity founded by African American men has established its first chapter in South Africa. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. in 1906, chartered Rho Phi Lambda Chapter, in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This Friday, February 11th, Teach For America (TFA) will kick off its 20th Anniversary Summit in Washington, D.C. Thousands of TFA teachers, alumni and supporters from across the country will converge on our nation’s capitol for three days of celebrating, networking and hearing CEO and Founder Wendy Kopp’s vision for ...