(ThyBlackMan.com) A few days ago, I wrote an article about what’s been going on in Houston and the actual stories coming from the brothers and sisters down there in Houston. It’s quite obvious that The State doesn’t care about African people because The State only serves to protect their own best ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hurricane Harvey has been among the most destructive natural events in recent American history. It has generated a record amount of rainfall and has broken the all-time Texas rainfall record from a tropical storm or hurricane. Hurricane Harvey has already had billions of dollars of financial implications related to its ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A scheme designed to evade an important Department of Education rule could soon lead to an estimated 41,000 former Corinthian College students and loan borrowers receiving more than $183 million in student loan relief. Aequitas Capital Management, a former financial services firm, is charged with acting in concert with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When we begin to make plans toward building or buying a home, we typically think about the down payment, the insurance cost, and of course the monthly mortgage payment. Those are our automatic responses and they form the most common advice we receive from friends and family. But when the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you know it is your right to think and become empowered? Did you know that the only quality you need to be successful is a sense of empowerment? Do you know the number one reason that most people fail is because they do not know they are empowered to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why do people fail? Why do their dreams fail to take root? We’d like to believe that the answer lies at the other end of asking, ‘Why do people succeed?’ We pretty much know why we succeed. Earl Nightingale said it best: Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hosting a community event is a great thing to do. Not only do you get to have people from all over your area coming and socializing at your event, but community events are often great at raising money for some cause or project. If you’re relatively new at hosting community ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1927, one of California’s hot go-go real estate developers and entrepreneurs, Walter Leimert, had a brainstorm. He would buy land, parcel out tracts, and oversee the home building craze in a new subdivision to be called Leimert Park. Leimert had earlier developed home and commercial building projects in Northern ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just because you travel a lot for business doesn’t mean you know all of the airport’s dirty little secrets, and we’re not talking about the fact that the trays on the airplane are absolutely filthy. Let’s face it—flying isn’t cheap. Especially if you find yourself on a plane more often ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Can you see the forest for the trees or the people for the city, can you see the beauty of a community because of its children, youth, teens and young adults striving to be successful and contributing to their communities. Can you see the diversity of a community by it’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The history of housing in America is a history of discrimination. Even as people of color have made strides in countless other areas of American life, home ownership—and the intergenerational wealth that comes along with it—remains out of reach for far too many. Even Frederick Douglass, when buying his first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Cheers to New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, one of the first mayors to take Confederate statues down and to make the strong point that these statues represent nothing but oppression. You should check out the speech he delivered, in May, at MarketWatch.com. More cheers to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh who ...