(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in 2008 I had written a script called étouffée and I wanted to make that script into a movie. Fast forward about seven months later I was lucky enough to have conversations with Alpha Tyler, they will know in casting director who’s worked with everyone from Spike Lee ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The college experience can be challenging, especially for students of color, who face institutional discrimination and often come to college with fewer academic skills and less academic writing experience than their white and Asian peers. To help level the playing field, many students of color turn to professional academic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The College Board, the organization that develops and administers the SAT test, has developed a new “adversity score” to augment the widely used college admissions examination. The fact that the College Board has had to create an “adversity score” is reason enough to discard the badly flawed SAT test, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In his book “Discrimination and Disparities,” economist Thomas Sowell notes that a disproportionate percentage of first-born siblings become National Merit scholars compared to siblings born later, presumably because the first-born starts life with no sibling competition for parental attention. This, says Sowell, illustrates the absurdities of expecting equal results ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black Americans for a Better Future Educational Fund (BAFBFED) announces their 7th Annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards. Along with the Annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards, there will also be an Economic Summit. The Summit is set for Friday, June 21, 2019 at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There you are staring at your pen and paper for hours already and yet it is still a blank page. As the clock is ticking, you get more and more frustrated. Then you have finally realized that you are experiencing a writer‘s block. Some people think that a writer’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University Richard Vedder’s new book, “Restoring the Promise,” published by the Independent Institute based in Oakland, California, is about the crisis in higher education. He summarizes the three major problems faced by America’s colleges and universities. First, our universities “are vastly too ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Understanding your child is one of the most important things that you can learn as a parent. It will help develop an effective way of guiding and nurturing your child as they grow older and mature. You must also be mindful that each child has a different way of digesting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you are a college student, chances are it would help if you had more money. There are a lot of different ways college students (or anyone) can make money on the side. You have to do some research and find out where the best opportunities are. In this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently the news was rocked with he information that many wealthy Americans, and celebrities, had purchased their children’s admission to some of the most prestigious universities in this country. Money was paid, test results were altered, and athletic scholarships were given to children that never paid the sport. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The thesis statement appears in almost every academic paper. It is also a sentence long but can have a massive impact on the quality of your essay. Thesis statement also tells readers what you the writer wants them to do, know, or think regarding the paper. So, whether you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the past ten years, inflation has averaged less than two percent with two exceptions: Health Care (~six percent) and College Tuition (~eight percent). An eight percent college inflation rate means the cost of college doubles every nine years. Think of it this way, if your 18-year-old daughter enters ...