(ThyBlackMan.com) All of us are students in life and we will be for the rest of our lives. We are always learning (or we should be). We are always making mistakes, the necessary ones and the avoidable one. But today our academic system in this country is far below what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Working toward your degree in public administration today means that you have real time access to important examples of the challenges and rewards associated with modern public leadership. Protests and uprisings across the world offer insight into the changing relationship between leaders and the public worldwide. There is no ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was introduced to Kathy Oliver, an African-American, at a Jamaican social club in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It came out during our conversation that she was introduced to Jamaican culture by her significant other, a Rastafarian named Martin. She remarked that she had written a book about the death ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We as women must make a simple decision are we, or are we not, bitches and whores. I totally agree with the concept that Black men ought not call us such things, and they should respect Black women. Having gotten that out the way I do feel it’s time ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My fellow Americans, please forgive me for not being able to feign any anger at Parker Rice and Levi Pettit. Rice and Pettit were two of the University of Oklahoma (OU) students and members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity who were caught on video tape making racially ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Five years before the racist video by the disgraced Oklahoma University fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon ignited a firestorm of student and public rage, hundreds of students and faculty members were up in arms over the “Compton Cook Out” at the University of California, San Diego and several other UC ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Alright Family, enough is enough!!!!!!!! It was bad enough I had to endure that bullsh*t Superbowl in which Roger Goodell made the call to the Seahawks bench and threatened somebody to make Russell Wilson the hero of the game, well okay maybe we don’t have proof for that, but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I was growing up, to even think college was not in the cards was an awful thought for most of us, a thought that would make our parents want to have our heads examined. A college education opened the door to career opportunities and allowed our people to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There will never be another BLACK S-A-E…. I wish there had been one less. My former fraternity broke my heart today. A video was posted allegedly showing members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity’s Oklahoma Kappa chapter chanting a disturbing song evoking images of deep hatred and cruelty that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Several blog postings ago, I promised to share my thoughts about what I believe HBCU alumni can do to support their alma mater. As we enter 2015, a year filled with unlimited possibilities, today seems like an excellent time to discuss how we can support in a more comprehensive ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even if you are still studying, it is definitely a good thing if you already know your career pathway. Where do you see yourself after graduation? What kind of career you want to have? As millions of students are about to graduate this, many want to know the top ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a family and relationship counselor, former detective, mediator and life coach, I have seen almost every problem you can imagine and many that you can’t. But what I see most often is marriages that can be saved or salvaged. One or both people are either too trifling, too ...