(ThyBlackMan.com) Don’t allow frustration in the classroom prompt you to post inappropriate content online in 2012. As teachers begin to make the transition from holiday relaxation spent with family and friends and back to the business of educational professional at their respective schools, they should remember to reposition and refocus ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I came across a topic on Facebook regarding single parenting. The following question was posed. If a father has a child for the equal amount of time or more than the mother even when the child is living with the mother, is the mother truly a single parent? I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) *If you can read this line: Thank a teacher! In a perfect world all teachers would be dedicated to their profession, keep long school hours, be involved with community endeavors unrelated to school events and basically be concerned with the welfare of their students. The good news is; that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 2012 is now coming to an end. Many of us have lined up our resolutions for the start of the New Year. We have plans, agendas and good intentions to make positive changes. They may consist of improving our finances, losing weight, becoming debt free, going to church, finding ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What do you get when you combine an already successful makeup artist business with a successful photography establishment? Lash To Lens. Lash to Lens is the brainchild of makeup artist Charlene Armstrong and photographer Kesha Lambert. Introduced by Charlene’s husband, the ladies started working with each other when they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My sister and I recently sat down to watch a show that we enjoy quite often called Millionaire Matchmaker. The host of the show was setting up a session for a rich and distinguished black man and was in the process of considering black women who she thought would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan was engaged to long-time girlfriend Yvette Prieto this week, a lot of folks in the black community looked at their computer screens with a crooked neck. Not that anyone is particularly interested in the personal life of Michael Jordan, but some were trying ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we move into a new year, it is absolutely critical that we African-American people get serious about providing a quality education for our children. Nearly 20 years ago in a column in the Richmond Free Press, I wrote that “Churches, Greek organizations, social and civic clubs need to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) She walks around with no direction/no protection/ You left Her after conception/looking for the love that You never gave Her/so with words it’s easy for men to sway Her/She gives up Her body so easily/so willfully/asking why didn’t He love me/Is it because I look like Her/Talk like Her/But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When we try to figure out why it is that we can never seem to find “The One”, the usual response is that you can’t find love because you’re too picky. But, is that really the case? Most of us, whether we openly admit it or not, have a list ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: ‘that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My father recently told me something that blew me away. All the game I have, all I’ve learned, came mostly from my old man. He gave me the game since I was a kid, yet he still surprises me from time to time. What he basically said was: “You ...