(ThyBlackMan.com) I love museums. Historical perspectives enrich our current perspectives…sometimes even change them. Recently, I went to a museum that, literally, touched my soul—Motown Records. I had a little time to explore as I was in Detroit to keynote an event for my nonprofit Radiance Foundation. How could I possibly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are all different, but we do have one thing in common. Ask anyone what they want from life, and they will inevitably answer to live a long and healthy life. The idea of passing on too soon is something that fills most of us with dread, which is why ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the time comes for your kid to apply to college, you can often feel as if your entire family has a lot of decisions to make. Because even though it may be your kid heading off to college, you’re still going to be quite heavily involved in the process. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ask any black person which political party has been black people’s political ally. With near unanimity, blacks would answer the Democratic Party. Asked which political party has been hostile to blacks, they’d say the Republican Party with similar unanimity. For better answers, check out Prager University’s five-minute clip “The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While the pay gap for African Americans tends to be stronger in some areas, there are a few career choices where the gap is lower. Georgetown University recently conducted a research study where they compiled a list of majors where African Americans are paid roughly the same as their counterparts. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’ve ever wondered how much hospital managers and other healthcare administrators earn, you’ve probably assumed that they’re some of the highest paid people in the building, and that assumption would be correct. Along with surgeons and a few other positions, healthcare administrators are among the highest earners in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our nation’s budget should reflect our nation’s professed values, but President Trump’s 2018 Federal Budget, “A New Foundation for America’s Greatness,” radically does the opposite. This immoral budget declares war on America’s children, our most vulnerable group, and the foundation of our nation’s current and future economic, military and leadership ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Presented at WordCamp Jacksonville 2017 national and international WordPress conference. An exploration into the value of Branding and Marketing to the diversity of humanity. Opening the mind to accepting that diversity is necessary for everyone to grow beyond their self-perceived biases and perceptions of other cultures, genders, socio-economic status and grandiose self-perceptions. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Too often, many urban people blindly think that “urban excellence” means graduating with a “degree” from a colonial university like Harvard which was like all colonial universities in this country was built upon the backs of free labor from colonized people in America. That type of thinking is very counterproductive ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I think about a country like America that thrives on it’s disgusting, corrosive, corrupt, and destructive parasitic capitalistically imperialist system. I see two different Americas – the urban experience and the colonial white experience. Colonial white kids at predominant colonial white schools across the country bring drugs, knives, guns, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.” – Malcolm X In 2017 it very easy to pass blame regarding the state of our education system. It’s only a passing of blame because the system did not just begin its decent. We have been watching this collision course ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At “Brothers Empowered to Teach”, we recruit men of color—particularly black men to explore careers in education. We utilize a formula that tackles the two key factors keeping black men from such a path. As much as a 1/3rd of college-bound black men will drop out by their sophomore year. ...