(ThyBlackMan.com) Even with Roger “No Nonsense” Goodell at the helm of the National Football league (after having succeeded Paul Tagliabue back in 2006), rehabilitated players now making the best of their second changes and initiatives like “NFL Cares” and other league affiliated service organizations making a difference in the lives young ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced TEACH, a national campaign to increase the number of African-American and Latino males being prepared as PK-12 classroom teachers. Nearly 40 percent of public school students are African-American or Latino. In many school districts this statistic hovers above 90 percent. Yet, less than 8 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After serving time for dogfighting, the veteran quarterback brings his considerable talents under control in Philadelphia — and to good effect… Three weeks into the 2010 NFL season, one of the biggest stories is Michael Vick, and this time he’s making headlines for all the right reasons. Since emerging ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “A constant diet of hopelessness will ultimately darken their mental skies and make them believe that their future is bleak and they will, therefore, develop the self-destructive behavior patterns so many of our youth currently exhibit.” Na’im Akbar The headline, “Murders of Young Black Men Rise” by Mike Wilkinson and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why all Black people should NOT start their own businesses… Copycatting is not a good reason to start your own business. We have enough barbershops and day cares… While entrepreneurship is a viable answer to the economic woes in any community, not everyone of color is capable of starting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If nothing else, Black Americans are resilient. Having survived slavery, Jim Crow and institutional racism, merely existing is to some degree an achievement. What contributed to the perseverance that allowed Blacks to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges was a steadfast determination to gain their birthright as American citizens and their willingness ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former NBA star and Michigan State player Jay Vincent pleaded guilty to two major felonies this week. Both involved his creation of a $2 million scam that was perpetrated on the Internet. The two charges to which Vincent pleaded guilty were mail fraud and filing a false tax return. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re an African-American male age of 45 and over, and you haven’t had a serious conversation with your doctor about prostate cancer, shame on you. Why? Because getting serious about prostate cancer is really not about you – really, it’s not. Prostate cancer screening is about love and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Ins and Outs of the Dating Game for Guys… You are a guy who is always in a serious relationship. You are a guy who hasn’t dated in years. Or maybe you’re a guy who has never been successful with women. Whatever your situation, there are some common dating ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black people all over the world have a rich and diverse historic legacy and a future that is full of promise, opportunity and prosperity if we continue our struggle for true freedom, justice and equality without engaging in self-denial, self-destruction, disunity or any form of mis-education. For centuries, there have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For Christian singles, every day brings the opportunity to do the right thing or the wrong thing. How do we choose? What do we base our decisions on? How do we look at each new situation and pick the course that agrees with our faith? As adopted sons and daughters ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans are cultural children. We are not fully developed as a people, because we don’t know who we are, what we stand for or where we are going. Many of us don’t even think about it. The best that many of us can manage is to be whatever ...