(ThyBlackMan.com) Civil rights leaders and Capitol Hill lawmakers are standing up and speaking out against a recent Department of Education (DOE) decision to sever its working relationship with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In separate and independent actions, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and staff are being challenged and corrected as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently an investigation probe into a college basketball recruit from the hood that was paid $100,000 by an executive at Adidas to attend The University Of Louisville. Other executives at Adidas used $250,000 in company funds to bribe high school basketball players to play at specific big schools like The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our college-age population consists mostly of 18- to 30-year-olds, and likewise our armed forces. I wonder whether they shared common responses to the 2016 presidential election. Many college administrators provided students with therapy dogs, play dough, coloring books, bubbles, videos of frolicking kittens and puppies, and soft music. They even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Readers Theater performs at the Ritz Theater The African Village Celebration 2017 The Stetson Kennedy Legacy “The Slave Narratives and Folklore.” The cast consists of Ari Turner, Rahman Johnson, Tangela Floyd(Director), Aida Correa, Jereme Raickett, William Jackson (Social Media and Technology). Their performances highlight the writings and civil rights works ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Engineering is a field that has diversified in a truly amazing way over the last several decades. The industrial revolution transformed our approaches to engineering. Consequently, the field has kept evolving since then. There are now a number of different engineering disciplines that are wildly different from one another. One ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, an article came out on Vice Sports called “The Plot to Disrupt the NCAA with a Pay-for-Play HBCU Basketball League” And the article discussed a plan by Andy Schwarz, an San Francisco based antitrust economist and a long time critic of the pseudo-amateurism that’s often promoted within college sports. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret that that the colonial education system in this country has shown not only a huge disdain towards black students, but also towards black teachers in the post-Brown v Board Of Education Era. Before the infamous “Brown v Board Of Education” decision, black schools in the 1940s and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last month, after speaking with the White House about a few calls, we had received I was asked to get a sense of where our member-schools stood on the upcoming National HBCU Week Conference. After a call with a number of our 47 member-school presidents and chancellors the overwhelming consensus ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you do not have the right driving instructor by your side, then there are fair chances that you will never be a good driver. The roots have to be strong for the tree to grow stronger and prosper the way it should, and that is why it is imperative ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African-American students often come up short when it comes to academic achievement. Falling behind their peers in standardized test scores, high school graduation rates and enrollment in the most rigorous classes, is the norm. According to reports, black children have less access to educational opportunities that prime them for college. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2006 I attended a multi-day gathering of the most powerful and influential conservative Republicans in the land. It culminated with a 25th-anniversary celebration black-tie event. I share these details to set the stage for my later remarks. During the event, Tony Perkins and I had a conversation regarding ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Volunteering their weekends with Vision Keepers and New Town Success Zone are students from Duval County Public Schools and Edward Waters College working to distribute food to the community. Their works and those of other volunteers have touched the lives of seniors, children, the disabled and others facing life’s challenges. The ...