(ThyBlackMan.com) The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that as of 2008, there were more than 846,000 black men in prison, making up 40.2 percent of all inmates in the system. More African-American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My 89 year old black preacher dad’s heart attack had Mary and me rushing from Florida to Baltimore Maryland. Dad is doing fine. Praise God. While in town, I visited my 60 something year old cousin in the hospital suffering with diabetes. They amputated half his foot. Sadly, he is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to press reports, the topic of Historically Black Colleges and Universities came up in the recent “listening session” at the White House with President Trump and his internal team of black leaders, as part of Black History Month. Reportedly, this piqued the president’s interest, and the discussion continued ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The home-buying process can seem daunting for someone who hasn’t done it before. You know that buying a house isn’t like buying a car, but you don’t understand all the ins and outs, and you get confused by terms like “escrow” and “due diligence.” You may get so overwhelmed that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s only natural to feel a little nervous about getting a mortgage. This is the way that many people feel when they have never had one before but are now thinking of finding one. It can all seem a little complicated and overwhelming. But that doesn’t mean you have to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For many people, the word of advice from our peers and elders is: Get a job and keep it. There’s a couple of ways of seeing how the people around you are right. You do need money in order to have a stable home life, and to buy you the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are so many African-American male authors who have fearlessly examined cultural stigmas, provided intimate life details, presented new ideas and created remarkable fiction through literary works. This list is certainly not limited and can go on forever, but here are five black authors you should know about: Wesley Lowery ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the government, the courts and the local law enforcement of this country painting targets on the foreheads of African Americans, are we aware of what is happening and how? A better question is how are African Americans contributing to our own demise as a people? Those who seek to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the African-American community there is a cloistered way of silence when it comes to certain topics. We don’t like discussing it for various reasons and at times it’s caused drama because you have that particular family member(s) that tend to run their mouths about stuff that is not their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Doing business, day after day, without any interruption is by no means guaranteed. Things can and do go wrong which can threaten a business and bring it to its knees, whether it’s a natural disaster or a man-made one. For this reason, companies need to be prepared, and employees have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the first time in so many years, I’ve been particularly interested in watching a certain show on BET, a network that has been owned by Corporate America since 2001. The reason I deliberately avoided watching the network for so many years is because of the negative destructive images of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My first thought when I finished watching Hidden Figures was, “Wow, they actually did all of those things, like they accomplished their goals.” I thought this was very inspirational, because back then it was very hard for other races besides Caucasians, to do the things they wanted and love. In ...