(ThyBlackMan.com) For the 44 million American consumers who struggle with a still-growing student loan debt of $1.4 trillion, the problems wrought by debt collectors and loan servicers is a nagging problem. Servicer changes and errors, unexplained fees that worsen the debt and difficulty in securing income-based repayment plans are all painfully ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From attacks on voting rights to police killings of unarmed civilians and growing inequities in earnings and wealth, the civil rights gains of the past six decades are facing threat after threat. But one front in the fight for full equality—meaningful access to higher education—is particularly urgent. With 65 percent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) FIRST we have to declare that there is a clear distinction between ‘gentrification’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ the gentrification process can occur naturally and voluntarily the people of a neighborhood who have been long time residents can be approached by large developers or a local government and asked to sell their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I already realize that those who know me well will state that I am biased in regards to speaking about the enormous utility of education in on-going efforts to uplift African-American males out of what most would agree is a death spiral that has already extinguished too many bright futures ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now to the logistics for making our schools safer. Arm select teachers and administrators who have previous law enforcement or military experience. Clearly the school ROTC instructor does. Require 10% of new hire applicants to have previous backgrounds in law enforcement or military experience. Because they likely have guns already, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Barack Obama spoke at the 12th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, MA, many of us scratched our heads as to why the event was off-the-record. No photography, recording, or social media posting about Obama’s appearance was allowed. Obviously, he would not be talking about golf. But, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Department of Justice is requesting an addition to the 2020 census form that could have wide ranging effects, changing everything from how congressional seats are apportioned to how federal funds are distributed. DOJ has asked the Commerce Department, which oversees the census process, to add a question about immigration ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are moments in life where things become so obvious that they are in a word, painful. Some time back, the African-American Library (the Edgar M. Gregory School in Houston, Texas) issued an invitation for me to address Malcolm X’s timeless speech, The Ballot or the Bullet. I graciously accepted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Upon hearing that former President Barack Obama recently boasted that he had a scandal-free administration, my first thought after regaining my faculties was: How can I possibly cram all the evidence refuting this in a little bitty column? Then I read that what he actually said was, “We didn’t have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I stopped attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), because it reminded me of “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons”; Blacks were noticeably missing from both cartoons. There were no Blacks in the past (The Flintstones) and there were no Blacks in the future (The Jetsons). CPAC is the largest annual ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A liberal-created failure that goes entirely ignored is the left’s harmful agenda for society’s most vulnerable people — the mentally ill. Eastern State Hospital, built in 1773 in Williamsburg, Virginia, was the first public hospital in America for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Many more followed. Much ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Black community wastes far too much time sharing recipes, and not nearly enough time sharing knowledge and wisdom. We’ve been trying the grits and gravy approach for 400 years now, and where has it gotten us? Yet, when I brought up the prospect of recognizing the need to use ...