(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent jobs data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics was not necessarily a boost for the Obama Administration. Black unemployment remained steady at 14.1 percent this month. The number is not as high as the 16.7 percent mark from one year ago today, but is still more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The unemployment numbers for August were published and showed overall black unemployment stuck at 14.1%, while the national unemployment rate dropped from 8.3% to 8.1%. Moving into more detail regarding the numbers, black male unemployment dropped a bit from 14.8% to 14.3%, black women unemployment increased from 11.5% to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Cornell West and Tavis Smiley were the targets of a lot of vitriol when they launched their “Poverty Tour” and called on the President and the nation to address the issue of rising poverty for all Americans. The vitriol and hate thrown at the two men was not coming ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This morning, I had to ask myself some hard questions, which I immediately took to my friends on Facebook: Are black people, as a collective, even capable of evaluating our political options objectively? They say that the best way to waste your vote is to stay home or choose ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tuesday night, as I watched the Democratic convention, I was totally mesmerized. But not for the reasons you might think. For starters, I am obliged to tip my hat to the Democrats. They put on one of the best, if not the best, convention nights I have ever seen ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sil lai Abrams, the relationship expert at Ebony.com, just wrote an article in which she challenged the notion of the “Ride or die chick.” The “ride-or-die chick” is defined, by some, to be the woman who stands by her man, no matter what. Sometimes, standing by that man might ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the dirtiest Black secrets of all is that Black people have kept themselves enslaved. The enslavement has been perpetuated largely by pretending that there is no racism. But also by passing lies and mythology about ourselves. Many Blacks think we are doing worse than we really are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) William Jackson (Prof. Edward Waters College) and Emanuel Washington (Producer, “We Remember Raines” Documentary) presented at “The Truth About Becky & Teddy”: A Teen and Young Adult Health Summit. The summit focused on Health and Educational issues facing 15 – 24 year olds in Jacksonville, Florida and Northeast Florida. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This Blog inspired by the song “Invisible” by Dove Hagan http://dovehagan.com/ This school year will be a year of emotional conflict, psychological torment and social withdrawal for students being bullied, harassed and tormented in the nation’s schools. Regression from friends, family and social interaction for youth struggling with being ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We’ve all heard of her; she’s been crooned, immortalized and hyped since the beginning of the 1990’s as the strong, self-sufficient black woman. She’s appeared in film, literature and theater as the saving grace of the black family and the antidote to black male patriarchy. In the process, she’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) recently began working at a school, and upon doing so, I have come face to face with some of the ills that are plaguing our community. My encounters have been with young boys dealing with bitterness towards women because of the resentment they have for their mother that abandoned ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Themain reason the Republicans are now able to make inroads into the base of Democratic support is because Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party have no job creation plan. Mr. Obama and his advisors appear to have made a mistake in thinking they could restrict the major topic of ...