(ThyBlackMan.com) “A people without the knowledge of their history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey When I graduated high school in New Orleans, America was a different place. Black Americans were all but locked out of economic opportunity because of the color of our skin ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You can look at a tool label in a store and see a dry little number stamped into metal or printed on a box. Two tons. Three tons. Six thousand pounds. It seems harmless, almost boring. But when you are crouched beside a vehicle, gravel pressing through your knees, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to watch an entire generation start believing a person is whoever his pictures claim. That belief has cost people plenty. The federal complaint against Daejon Love, filed this month in the District of Oregon and later made public, is among the clearest warnings I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every young brother I know has heard the sermon. Buy the house. Stop throwing money away on rent. Build something you can leave behind. For years I preached that same gospel myself, standing in barbershops and cookouts telling nephews and coworkers that a deed was the closest thing to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As businesses strive to gain a competitive edge in the financial sector, leveraging a Financial Intelligence Platform becomes increasingly important. These platforms offer comprehensive tools for data analysis, financial forecasting, and strategic decision-making. The choice of a suitable platform can significantly enhance a company’s accounting and finance operations. This ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere along the way a lot of us convinced ourselves that a fat bank account and financial wisdom were the same thing. They are cousins at best, and distant ones at that. I got to thinking about this again while watching the whole Floyd situation unfold across 2026, because if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a photograph in my head of Michael at his peak, tongue out, rising toward a rim that never seemed far enough away to stop him. Most of us carry some version of that image. It got burned into a whole generation. What fewer of us sit with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have watched a lot of politicians stand at a podium and talk about the little man. Most of the time the little man they picture looks nothing like me, my nephews, or the fellas I came up with back home. So when Vice President JD Vance gets up ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most of us learned early that a paycheck was the whole point. You show up, put in your hours, and Friday the direct deposit lands. That money keeps a roof up and food on the table. For a long stretch of my life, that felt like the entire arrangement. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The national debt has passed $40 trillion—that is $40,000,000,000,000, a number with more zeroes than most of us can comfortably count. The Congressional Budget Office projects a federal deficit of $1.9 trillion this year. We will spend more than $1 trillion simply paying interest on the debt—money that cannot be spent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It drew some media and public attention. The “it” was the news item in August 2026 that California state officials were mandated to clean up a toxin chemical dump that had posed danger to residents for four decades in an area of South L.A.. The fact that it even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries encountered a government program he does not want to expand — at least not “currently.” Asked recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether he supports Medicare for All, Jeffries replied it is “not legislation that I am currently cosponsoring or that I support.” ...