(ThyBlackMan.com) The inspiration behind many topics I address on this site result from my daily travels. My pen can be activated by a chance encounter, witnessing conflict or kindness between people strangers and a host of occurrences. Anyone who visits this space frequently can attest to the fact that much ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is commonplace that many students find it difficult to make the transition from the familiar setting of their family home to the unknown territory of the college campus. It’s a huge adaption which should not be underestimated in terms of the challenges that it presents to your kids. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you send your youngster off to college, you might not mind that they will have to walk on eggshells, respect taboos, snitch on fellow students for politically incorrect jokes and learn to use ad hominem arguments as a means to attack ideas they find “disagreeable.” If that’s your ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ken Carter (Samuel Jackson) takes over as the head coach of the basketball team at Richmond High School, the team he played for in high school. He notices that the athletes are disrespectful towards the coaches and each other. He starts off by handing the players contracts, which state ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The reaction — shock, joy, disbelief, euphoria — revealed the importance of Robert F. Smith’s stunning gift, when he announced, unexpectedly, that he would pay off all the college debts of Morehouse College students graduating this year. His gift literally changed the prospects and the lives of the vast majority ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I don’t feel safe,” says a Harvard student in a video. What threatens her? The dean of her Harvard dormitory, law professor Ronald Sullivan, agreed to be part of accused sexual harasser Harvey Weinstein’s legal defense team. Sullivan and his wife were deans of the dormitory for years, but no ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Drivers ed is mandatory in most states for quite some time now. It is one of the requirements teens, particularly those aged below 18, need to comply with before they can get their learner’s permit. Yet, many parents still wonder if taking a drivers education course is truly necessary. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) More often than not, there will be a student who struggles with a difficult subject and extra help in grasping that subject is required. It’s the parents’ role in getting their child the right tutoring they need to pass that hurdle and gain more confidence. Physics is a core ...
(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 ...