(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s back to school time! Time to throw off the slumber and excitement of summer and get focused on building the future. How do we send our children back to school? Business as usual? Or, we do we send them back to school focused and prepared for the inevitable twists ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I tip my cap to LeBron James and his entire team for achieving what has proven extremely difficult, if not impossible for many others. Of course, I am referring to the I Promise School located in Lebron’s hometown of Akron, Ohio. Anyone involved in the administration, let alone the creation, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is said that music keeps students busy, provides a place to learn or sharpen their talents and skills. But, it also plays a significant role in their mental growth, social and other skill-sets. In case you suspect or feel that your child is interested in learning music, make sure ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Physicist Thomas Brophy’s 2002 treatise, The Origin Map: Discovery of a Prehistoric, Megalithic, Astrophysical Map and Sculpture of the Universe, offers compelling evidence that 15,000 years ago the Egyptians had a detailed understanding of the galactic structure of the universe. Brophy, who happens to be a prominent white physicist, notes that, “in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On February 29, 1968 President Johnson’s National Advisory on Civil Disorders, tasked with finding the causes of the riots of the 1960s, declared that “our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” It charged that “the press has too long basked in a white ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Few athletes have ever been under the public spotlight more than LeBron James. It is extremely rare when high school juniors appear on the cover of America’s preeminent sports magazine, Sports Illustrated as James did back in 2002. At the age of thirty-three, LeBron James has been in the national ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Irrespective of background, during the academic journey of graduate students, there is the inevitable facing of trials in their adjustment to the university, respective academic programs, surrounding community of the university, etc. However, for the minority graduate student, these trials are typically more extensive and compounded by other factors. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are pivotal moments that serve as “forks in the road” in all of our lives. One of my most pivotal moments flowed from a conversation that I had with my dear mother regarding how I could make the best use of this never-ending gift of life. Moments after I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Harlem had been Mecca for Black America since the 1920s. Fifty years later, its residents raucously insisted they be allowed to enter City College, the legendary college on their doorstep, in more than just token numbers and that Black issues and perspectives become part and parcel of what students there ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Who should be paying attention to the Black boy reading crisis? The simple answer is everyone, but not everyone is. We tend to blithely accept that the reading crisis occurring among our Black boys is a problem for the education grouping. Yet we are constantly reminded that school administrators, educators ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I firmly believe that if students, from Day One, were introduced to the enigmas at the heart of science, they would be much more likely to master the nuts and bolts. I wish that when I was a lad we were told that Rene Descartes’ X and Y coordinate system, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you got your sights set on a promotion at your place of work? If you know that someone is planning on leaving the company soon and there is a position up for grabs, you are going to need to do everything in your power to make sure that you ...