(ThyBlackMan.com) Yet another report, the Nielsen African American Consumer Report, was released in October 2016. Titled, “Young, Connected, and Black – African American millennials are driving social change and leading digital advancement,” it points out various issues related to how Blacks spend our dollars, with an emphasis on our young people. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Lately, I’ve been keeping a very close eye on what’s been going on down there in “The Sunshine State” of Florida & in particular St. Petersburg, Florida. The Revolutionary People’s Movement has been rising up and taking a stand against a corrupt city government and a disgusting status quo that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Focus on the Good “Trust in the Lord, and do good”. -Psalms 37:3 All across our land we witness people – in both low and high places – practicing bad and producing bad results. Bad people do bad things. Bad people rob. Bad people lie and cover up their lies. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The proper mental attitude is a predictor of our success. What is mental attitude? Mental attitude is the positive, inner, creative force which lifts the recipient above his or her circumstances and determines the difference between their success and failure. Mental attitude is not conferred upon merely the rich and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are political movements to push the federal minimum hourly wage to $15. Raising the minimum wage has popular support among Americans. Their reasons include fighting poverty, preventing worker exploitation and providing a living wage. For the most part, the intentions behind the support for raising the minimum wage ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Life moves at a fast pace. Various areas of responsibility can find us looking for more hours in the day. Many of us find extra hours by cutting into our sleep time. You may have heard the saying “Sleep is the cousin of death”, or “you can sleep when you’re ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In life, you have to uphold a certain code for yourself. Whether it is in how you deal with people professionally or on a personal level, we all have a way that we believe we should be treated and how we should treat others. All of this rings true for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The absence of White bodies doesn’t make a space Black-only. People of color have been consciously and unconsciously conditioned to see themselves as less than. Physically separating oneself from White bodies does nothing to deal with the psychological damage that comes from being inculcated with the myth of White supremacy. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is the beginning of a new era in Los Angeles. And while many believe that Lakers fans are jumping the gun by anointing Lonzo Ball the savior of the Purple & Gold, rarely does the potential of a player generate this much buzz around the league. There was seemingly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has become President Donald Trump’s fiercest congressional critic. In eight years, Obama never had a Republican nemesis the likes of Waters, who recently said, “I’m taking the gloves off.” Seventeen years ago, I wrote Waters a letter. She never answered. It read, in part: Congresswoman ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., the de facto leader of the #Resistance to President Trump in Congress, is vowing to take Dr. Ben Carson apart. Speaking at the Essence Festival – a gathering of black liberals – Waters said HUD Secretary Ben Carson “doesn’t care about people in public ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The man who currently occupies the Oval Office (I call him 45, but y ’all know his name, and we don’t call it because we do not believe in feeding bloated egos), promised to “Make America Great Again”. He said that he would create jobs, generate economic growth, and create ...