(ThyBlackMan.com) All too often, our “history” month turns into a tribute to the past. And while the past is an important place to lift up it is, indeed, a tributary, a stream that flows into the larger stream of an unbounded future. The future must always be greater than the present, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again? Those were the questions posed by President Lyndon Johnson to The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, commonly called the Kerner Commission, which issued its response fifty years ago this month. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, the colonial state once again showed why educating African children has never been their top priority when it closed down 4 schools (3 elementary and 1 middle school) all In predominant African communities of the city of Montgomery, Alabama. The Montgomery Public School Board is historically anti-black and it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the 44 million American consumers who struggle with a still-growing student loan debt of $1.4 trillion, the problems wrought by debt collectors and loan servicers is a nagging problem. Servicer changes and errors, unexplained fees that worsen the debt and difficulty in securing income-based repayment plans are all painfully ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From attacks on voting rights to police killings of unarmed civilians and growing inequities in earnings and wealth, the civil rights gains of the past six decades are facing threat after threat. But one front in the fight for full equality—meaningful access to higher education—is particularly urgent. With 65 percent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I already realize that those who know me well will state that I am biased in regards to speaking about the enormous utility of education in on-going efforts to uplift African-American males out of what most would agree is a death spiral that has already extinguished too many bright futures ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now to the logistics for making our schools safer. Arm select teachers and administrators who have previous law enforcement or military experience. Clearly the school ROTC instructor does. Require 10% of new hire applicants to have previous backgrounds in law enforcement or military experience. Because they likely have guns already, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are moments in life where things become so obvious that they are in a word, painful. Some time back, the African-American Library (the Edgar M. Gregory School in Houston, Texas) issued an invitation for me to address Malcolm X’s timeless speech, The Ballot or the Bullet. I graciously accepted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Odds are you’ve heard that it is better to ‘study smart’ than ‘study hard’ – and that much is certainly true. The idea is that by studying smart you should absorb more information in a shorter duration, which is definitely something worth aiming for. However most people don’t fully understand ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One cannot help but be riveted by the outstanding response from the young survivors of the carnage at in Parkland, Florida, and their absolute audacity in confronting both Florida legislators and the President with their frustration at the absence of common sense gun control. During a CNN Town Hall, student Cameron ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As both a former detective and firearms instructor I can say from experience regarding the school shootings, part of the solution is arming the teachers and administrators – strategically some of them. I agree with Trump. Most of those who disagree either fear guns or don’t know squat about public ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I do not think the Florida shooting is a Hoax. But I do see evidence of it being a false flag. And in a False Flag event lives seen as collateral can be lost. Everything that needed to be overlooked for this to happen was conveniently overlooked – from Face ...