(ThyBlackMan.com) The Florida Department of Education initiative: Dads Take Your Child to School Day! The Department of Family and Community Engagement is partnering on this initiative. This event is similar to the Million Father March that was held on the first day of school nationally. As part of this initiative, fathers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in the 1960s, as large numbers of black students were entering a certain Ivy League university for the first time, someone asked a chemistry professor — off the record — what his response to them was. He said, “I give them all A’s and B’s. To hell with them.” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “You’re getting your inheritance early.” Those were my father’s words to me as he explained that he was taking money that he might have left me in his will and spending it on my private school tuition. My father’s reasoning was that I would be able to create more wealth ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last year’s college news was about demands for safe spaces, trigger warnings and bans on insensitivity. This year’s college news is about black student demands for segregated campus housing and other racially segregated campus spaces and programs. I totally disagree with these calls by black students. It’s a gross dereliction ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As you may have heard, African Americans face unique challenges daily. Some of these challenges are chronic ethical issues of injustice and inequality. Others are cultural issues like family & economic structure. Cultural issues often take a back seat to the unfair treatment endured, because WE purposely put them there. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For most kids, the summer holiday has already ended, and school is back in session. You’re probably enjoying the extra time to yourself, but might be worried about how your kids get along in school. While you can’t be in school with them, there’s plenty of other ways to support ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The University of Chicago’s president, Dr. Robert J. Zimmer, wrote a Wall Street Journal article, titled “Free Speech Is the Basis of a True Education.” In it, he wrote: “Free speech is at risk at the very institution where it should be assured: the university. Invited speakers are disinvited ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ordinarily, it is not a good idea to base how you vote on just one issue. But if black lives really matter, as they should matter like all other lives, then it is hard to see any racial issue that matters as much as education. The government could double the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Modern people can`t stop trying to fight obesity by experiencing numerous diets. However, the purpose of the diet itself changed its vector today. People choose food not only to keep physically fit, they also tend to boost their brain. However, if you a student you can rely brains of other ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Numerous surveys, reports, articles, studies, and documentaries speak of the depressing state of African American males, who some theorists believe are in the process of systematic extinction much like other species across the earth. Despite these depressing reports, delusional African Americans still claim there will be redemption for these disenfranchised ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This blog was originally written in 2013, much has changed in the opportunities for children of color and culture to grow and develop into Nerds, Blerds, Geeks and Entrepreneurs. In our educational systems nationwide, where children of color and culture are taught not just the educational curriculums and strategies for successfully ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Each school year is an opportunity to begin anew. To start off on a great foundation of learning and discovery. It is also another opportunity to encourage fathers, grandfathers, uncles, stepfathers and surrogate fathers to mentor and volunteer in schools. To be involved in making their children’s lives a better opportunity to ...