(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, I challenge you to consider the lessons your life is offering you right now. I say, “offering” because God offers lessons, but it is up to us to learn from them. If we don’t learn, the same lessons are offered again and again. Through both frustrations and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A coalition of more than 100 colleges and universities are fighting to persuade Congress and the special supercommittee not to cut $85 million or more in federal funding. The coalition consists of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Black Man, I have become a woman that you no longer recognize. I have allowed our enemy to impregnate me with his ideas and thoughts. I have allowed an illusion of independence to keep us separated. I have fooled myself into believing that my degrees places me degrees ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Save our souls and our nation by legalizing your way to deficit reduction, would be my recommendation to the Super Committee members attempting to curb our national debt and bolster the economy. Ending the war on drugs—pragmatic, sensibly humane and post racial—would alone save our nation billions of dollars. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The dudes from the ATL grew up eating fish and grits. Fish and chips were a common childhood fare for the lads from Liverpool. Both groups became famous for songs with similarly affirmative refrains: The “Yeah, yeah, yeah” of the Liverpudlians is translated to “O-yea-yer” in ATLien speak. I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I want to know why folks are trying to starve the babies. Okay that may be a little over the top, but seriously what were they thinking? Let me just start by saying that when growing up and attending school in the 70’s and the 80’s one thing was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is appalling and worrisome to see what is occurring in our country. Democrats and Republicans are moving to polar opposites in regard to opinions on job creation, budget reduction and taxes. Abandonment of the center, where any job creation plan will be resolved, dooms the unemployed to another ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My America is land of the free and home of the brave. But this is only in theory. The actual truth is that the bravest folk in our great nation are those who think, read, who are of the middle and lower classes have no insurance or jobs and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 16 years ago, I was sitting alone in a Planned Parenthood clinic located in downtown Philadelphia. 16 years later, I find myself seated in the lobby of a Planned Parenthood clinic once again. Except I am not the patient filling out the paperwork, my daughter is. We are not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Life is a Trip!!! and Its not like we are given a customized list of options when we are born into the world. Being thrust into the world not by our own choice, one would think we’d be given all the tools we need, placed in the right environment, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most college students end up taking advantage of financial aid while in college because there are several different scholarships, grants, and loans available to students. The key is to get as many scholarships and grants (free money) as possible while taking out as few loans (money you have to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The reality is that race still matters in America in 2011. For all of those who would rather not prefer to admit this fact, it important to continue to keep stating the truth that institutionalized racism is alive and well in the United States. Yes, there has been remarkable ...