(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is quite possibly no more controversial statement that can be made inside of a classroom than the following one. The worst thing to ever occur to black education was the movement to integrate American schools via the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. The vast majority of students ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Earlier this year, a man named Jack Weldon Patrick passed away in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. A long-time lawyer, Patrick was remembered as a family man, an advocate for social justice, and a respected community leader. One day a check arrived by mail for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like most people, we all tend to struggle to find the motivation to get out of bed every morning and push ourselves to get the most from our lives. Whether we are stuck in a dead end job, overweight or unhealthy, or struggling financially, there comes that moment where we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a father with his oldest child soon hitting the ripe age of 15, I can’t relate more to the stress of teaching your kin how to drive, especially after reading about how a man climbs 110 freeway sign and other CA traffic stories. At this time and age, our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I guess that the movement of school districts throughout the nation to begin scouring the nation for African-American males to populate their classrooms as teachers is at least a small admission that Black Male Teachers matter. Considering the historic resistance of any admission regarding the worth and utility of black ...