(ThyBlackMan.com) The Mi Band 2 was a massive hit and Xiaomi Mi Band 3 won’t be an exception, with the features it offers. The device was officially announced for the Chinese market but Xiaomi didn’t say anything about the worldwide launch. The Mi Band 2 was made available globally after being ...
(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) “It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth…arrogance into humility…brutality into patriotism. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” Joseph Heller Catch-22 Truth, sometimes, is stranger than fiction. This quote, in some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I guess that it is a good thing to be reminded that being a black man in America comes at an extreme cost to one’s identity. As I have mentioned in this space previously, there are times that I feel like Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Now, I do not want ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A pioneer is “a person or group that originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development”. In sports, pioneers are often viewed as people who make innovations or breakthroughs in how a sport is played or how the business ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Paul Porter has been in the music industry, and apart of radio, for what seems like more than a lifetime. He has watched the music change, and the industry itself as the goal became get money at all cost. In his book “Blackout: My 40yrs in the Music Business” he ...
(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s common knowledge that a poorly written, uninspired cover letter could cost you a job interview. When HR Managers, recruiters and employers are shortlisting candidates, they often will narrow it down to a shortlist which they then shortlist again by making even more cuts. When there are plenty of great ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After a recent conversation with a male student who by all indications decided to turn his back on the extraordinary opportunities available to young black males, I could do little more than sigh and recite Napoleon Bonaparte’s infamous quote that “In this life, we are either kings or pawns, emperors ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Young people can’t jump! In your face, Millennials! Step back, hipsters, because black Baby Boomers are taking the court in Uncle Drew. The genesis of this heart-warming sports comedy was a Pepsi Max commercial that evolved into a YouTube series that has been viewed 100M times. The webisodes starred Boston ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Growing up as a kid on Jackson St., one of my favorite places that I would often frequent in the hood was called “Mr. Joe’s Pool Room” that was owned by an elderly black man named Joe Williams and the pool room was where you could shoot pool, buy cookies, ...