(ThyBlackMan.com) Like much of the nation, I spent the last few days and weeks fixated on the debt negotiations in Washington. Intently watching as extreme factions on the right were willing to lead us into default in order to advance their agenda, I’m certain we are all breathing a sigh ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black America is in crisis. In a recent study, the National Urban League reported that almost all the economic gains made by African Americans over the last 30 years have been lost during the Great Recession. Black unemployment now stands at 16.2 percent, harkening back to 1982 when that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans are more likely than whites to use Twitter — and the gap is growing. Experts have attributed the difference in Twitter uptake among white and black users to demographic factors that distinguish the African American community, such as age and above-average smartphone use, as well as disparities ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now before you get angry at me for this one, hear me out. I get so frustrated every time I am in line behind some MochaFolk at the bodega and I see then carelessly purchase at least $10 dollars worth of lottery tickets. I remember one of my coworkers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So it’s time for you to sit down and have a face-to-face chat with your teenage son. Actually, there might be a better option. The public service announcements on television make it sound like the best approach is to just start a conversation about drugs or alcohol at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Accepting use, remaining indifferent to its use, or using the n-word is the same as sanctioning all that transpired against the black ancestry. Some may believe that the word and its focus is less tailored or relevant to today’s Black African Americans. They believe, instead, that its relevance is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every day an entire wealth of information is shared and our young people grasp very little of it… They say if you want to hide some thing from a Black man, put it in a book. I say to hide something from most Black people, just write it anywhere ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I would imagine most of us are familiar with the idea that we are largely products of our environment. For good or bad, we are influenced by our experiences and mature to either continue in or deviate from what we have learned thus far. That’s a powerful realization. We ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I leave you racial dignity. I want Negroes to maintain their human dignity at all costs. Mary McLeod Bethune I recently drove my son to check off campus housing at his college and overheard a discussion between several young ladies. They were talking about another girl in a matter ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A new survey at YourBlackWorld.com reveals that black men and women have different perceptions on what it takes to turn a boy into a man. The survey finds that while most black men do not believe that a woman can raise a boy to be a man without male intervention, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We can all accept that the socioeconomic dynamic of relationships have drastically changed over the last 20 years. Women have knocked down so many social and economic walls and many cases are in situations where they happen to make more than their mate. The general social structure of a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you feel as though your career has hit a standstill? Are the promotions slower or your career in need of a jumpstart? How do you break through to the next level? Try these five steps to reboot: 1.Fall in love with your job again. By the time you feel ...