(ThyBlackMan.com) As a proud, card-carrying member of the Black Press for more than 25 years, I have grown to both love and abhor the arrival of February when America, perhaps in an act of penance, holds its annual “lovefest” known as Black History Month. As much as I long to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The jobs number coming out of the Labor Department, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was a surprising number, indeed; 467,000 jobs created in January. Think about this; $529 million a day of Consumer Demand (Spending) was removed from the economy, the $529 million a Day Consumer Tax Cut ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The internet has made an impact on our lives since it was introduced on the market back in 1983. The benefits have increased from then until now. We are all in the age of technology, which is driven by the internet and all its uses. It has been shown ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I will not watch the Superbowl. Let me first back up. I am the consummate NFL junkie. I have watched a whole or part of nearly every NFL Monday Night game since its start in 1970. I have watched more Sunday night, Thursday night, and Saturday NFL games than ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) With some pundits advocating for price controls to fight inflation, it suddenly feels like the 1970s again. This type of overbearing intervention has never worked as marketed, something President Richard Nixon discovered in 1973 when he lifted the wage and price controls he had implemented two years earlier. Still, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Identity is a nebulous psychological construct that has nothing to do with anything. It is subjective and as such has no root in performance or merit whatsoever. Competence on the other hand, describes a person with the ability to do something successfully or efficiently. For some reason outside of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Exactly one year after Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. became the 46th president of the United States, yet another Great White Hope has begun his descent from the heavenly expectations of Black folks in this country, into the reality of increasing levels of race hatred being shown by more and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Biden administration and Congress have made clear the importance of investing in community well-being with passage in the House of Representatives of the Build Back Better Act and the now-signed-into-law bipartisan infrastructure bill. Transportation, education, child care, broadband access, clean air and water, and affordable housing are all ...

(ThyBlackMan.com)President Biden at his first 2022 press conference made a point of saying that Republicans are just blocking his “Build Back Better” agenda. He kept asking, “What are Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thing they’re for?” Later in his press conference he asked, “Is there any ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When President Joe Biden was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2021, the federal government’s debt stood at $27,751,896,236,414.77. When his first year in office ended on Jan. 20, 2022, it stood at $29,867,021,509,573.92. That means that during Biden’s first 12 months in office, the federal debt grew by more ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “We are amazed but not amused – By all the things you say that you’ll do…But we are sick and tired of hearing your song – Tellin’ how you are gonna’ change right from wrong – ‘Cause if you really want to hear our views – You haven’t done ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Gaining new customers is crucial to growing your business, but it can be financially demanding, time-consuming, and difficult. If you don’t have a healthy retention rate, it can actually cost more to acquire new customers than you will collect in revenue over their lifetime. Just think about it; you ...