(ThyBlackMan.com) For many people, the word of advice from our peers and elders is: Get a job and keep it. There’s a couple of ways of seeing how the people around you are right. You do need money in order to have a stable home life, and to buy you the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are so many African-American male authors who have fearlessly examined cultural stigmas, provided intimate life details, presented new ideas and created remarkable fiction through literary works. This list is certainly not limited and can go on forever, but here are five black authors you should know about: Wesley Lowery ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Brothers, be honest. How often do you go to your doctor. Well maybe this will change your mind. African-American men are 30 percent more likely to die from heart disease than White males 36 percent of Black men are obese 3.7 million of all African-Americans 20 or older have diabetes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is little question in most academic research that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in unemployment. The debatable issue is the magnitude of the increase. An issue not often included in minimum wage debates is the substitution effects of minimum wage increases. The substitution effect might ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A tribute to our past, present and future. Here’s to the winner in all of us! When dealing with controversial issues, we often allow our emotions to overshadow our powers of reason. Thus, the debate as to whether Black History should extend beyond its timeframe, pits innovators against traditionalists, with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the government, the courts and the local law enforcement of this country painting targets on the foreheads of African Americans, are we aware of what is happening and how? A better question is how are African Americans contributing to our own demise as a people? Those who seek to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, the mainstream news media has attacked alternative news sites that put out actual information about real issues that are going on in the world by calling them “fake news” when in fact, THEY (mainstream news media) are the biggest culprits of perpetuating fake news for over several hundred years, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the African-American community there is a cloistered way of silence when it comes to certain topics. We don’t like discussing it for various reasons and at times it’s caused drama because you have that particular family member(s) that tend to run their mouths about stuff that is not their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In earlier columns I’ve talked about the natural rights that every person has, from birth. The first and most fundamental of these is the right to life. The right to life would be meaningless without the inherent right to defend yourself against attack. You have the absolute right to do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Mainstream”. We are having a country-wide civics lesson on who is or is not out of our mainstream: Senate Democrats or the Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he’ll fight “tooth and nail” against any Supreme Court nominee who’s outside the mainstream, and many of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For eight years, conservatives — rightly, in my view — railed against the imperial presidency of Barack Obama. When he couldn’t get what he wanted through the ordered and deliberative legislative process, he used other means, issuing regulations and executive orders that accomplished his goals without having to convince the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I don’t remember us treating their nominees this way,” This is what an apoplectic Utah GOP Senator Orin Hatch raged at his Democratic Senate colleagues when they had the temerity to boycott confirmation hearings on two Trump appointees. Hatch, of course, had to feign righteous anger, indignation and disgust at ...