(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On July 30th, our country marked Medicare and Medicaid’s 52nd birthday—enacted as Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act, and signed into law as part of Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 War on Poverty. For the very first time in our country, all Americans aged 65 or older were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You have done your homework and crunched the numbers. You have calculated the mortgage payments and estimated the payments for taxes. You have been realistic in terms of exactly what price range for a house that you can afford. You even managed to stay within that range while you were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you are dealing with issues such as immigration, you have several options for how to handle the process. However, that does not mean that all of those options are the best ones for you. There is one option available that is certainly more stable than others and that is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Suffering a serious injury has the potential to be a truly life-changing experience and can have huge consequences for your mental and physical health, finances and personal life. Many people end up struggling to pay for their medical bills following an injury or find that the injury makes them ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Will another HBCU “bite the dust?” Truly, it depends on us. Pennsylvania’s Cheyney University, the oldest HBCU in the nation (founded in 1837) has been on probation since November 2015. If the Middle States Commission on Higher Education does not accept a sustainability report that is due on September 1, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What is the difference between those who claim they want to achieve something great – whether it’s writing a book, launching a business or going back to school – and those who actually do it? Mindset! Success begins with a thought and eventually becomes a mental attitude. A mindset is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you look back on the past and the way businesses were run before the information age took hold, it’s amazing how things have changed. From clunky typewriters to sleek laptops and from smoky conference rooms to offices that are completely smoke-free, a lot has changed over the years about ...