(ThyBlackMan.com) The last fifty years has seen a veritable explosion of single-dads in American society. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of households headed by a father has increased dramatically – from 300,000 in 1960 to 2.5 million in 2011. Some of these men are sharing custody but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It’s not what you know. It’s who you know” – Society You can go all Boosie Bad Azz on me and tell me you are independent. You can tell me you are team ‘solo dolo’. You can even pump a fist in the air and sing the anthem “Me, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the 1800’s African Americans were in the congress of the United States. African Americans even owned slaves and/or indentured servants (no I am not bragging about that). By the 1920s we had Black Wallstreet, the most successful business community circulation of the dollar that has ever existed in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future. —Theodore Roosevelt History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I warned you and I warned athletes in a previous posting about the dangers of trick roll prostitutes https://thyblackman.com/2015/09/13/sex-lies-and-nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell/. Brother Lamar Odom, who we wish the best, is at death’s door because these ruthless gold diggers. These gold diggers are no different than his wife and her family and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The esteem and respect once given to the grandparents and elders within the African American community has vanished. “Grandpa” is usually absent, due to African American males having the shortest life expectancy in America, shortened by heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and homicide. The roles of “Big Momma” as philosopher, psychologist, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You could easily argue that Park City, Utah was tailor-made for the winter, with the stunning mountainous terrain providing excellent skiing and some great accommodation, dining and entertainment options to make your après-ski time enjoyable. Park City has a host of attractions and opportunities to entertain all ages and interests, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As technology changes, so does the job market. Two centuries ago, most low skilled workers would have found work as farmhands, while a century ago they would have been employed in a factory. Today they are most likely to work in the service industry, whether in retail, food service, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every day it seems we hear a litany of stories over the news media about single-dads mired in conflict with the mother of their children. All too often these conflicts end up in assaults and arrests. Such negative outcomes strain the father-child relationship beyond repair and impair our ability ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s just that simple. Over the past few days I have gotten into heated arguments with men who have presented and positioned themselves as Pro-Black, yet they find themselves incapable of standing against a Black man who has repeatedly violated Black women. There is something inherently wrong with your ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The march is over. The celebration has ended. The ultimatums have been issued and the challenges have been made. And now that everybody has left Washington and gone home, now what? Do we build coalitions, business partnerships and community relationships that oversee our own problems – and our own ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the school year peeks its head out, the priority to reading and comprehension begins again to show that these two skills are the keys to academic success and advancement. No two skills are the foundation for learning and the continuation of life-long learners than comprehension and reading in ...