(ThyBlackMan.com) As the doors swung open last week to the nation’s new Museum of African American History and Culture, my organization, CURE, was hosting another separate, but related event. Fifty black pastors from around the nation convened in Washington, D.C., for CURE’s annual Pastor Policy Summit. CURE focuses on market and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why can’t more of us see that economics is the key to our freedom and the answer to the problems we talk about all the time? This political year has and continues to bring this fact to light, but the Colin Kaepernick protest illuminates the issue of economics even more. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As my readers know, I don’t pay much attention to polls. I think they are a total waste of time and have proven to be extremely inaccurate over the past few years. According to polls, Mitt Romney should have been president after the 2012 elections. Just as the polls have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Florida Department of Education initiative: Dads Take Your Child to School Day! The Department of Family and Community Engagement is partnering on this initiative. This event is similar to the Million Father March that was held on the first day of school nationally. As part of this initiative, fathers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in the 1960s, as large numbers of black students were entering a certain Ivy League university for the first time, someone asked a chemistry professor — off the record — what his response to them was. He said, “I give them all A’s and B’s. To hell with them.” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once upon a time ago, a cruel and barbarous colonial power came to Africa with its friends to rape and pillage and murder and spread disease. The year was 1839 and through the nefarious barrel of cannon, France forced the signature of a treaty with local chiefs that gave it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Someone might want to inform Hillary Clinton that greed and envy are two of the seven deadly sins. Her new revised tax plan would raise the estate tax to as high as 65 percent — up from 40 percent, where it is today. She would also apply this hated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) American, the land of opportunity. But is that enough to make a country great? Trump says make America great again and Hillary says America never stopped being great. But my question is when was America ever great in the first place? And for all the people who accept the Trump ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week President Obama stood before the Congressional Black Caucus and gave his final speech as the acting Commander-in-Chief. The tone was very relaxed. At times it was playful. He was on friendly territory, a familiar neighborhood where you know everyone by their first names. It was like he walked ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “In the shadow of the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the King Memorial, and the front yard of the Washington Monument, like a phoenix, our museum will rise…Believe me, if we can build a museum…there’s nothing that you can’t do. There’s nothing you can’t reach. There’s nothing you can’t teach, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The day after Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler announced first degree manslaughter charges would be filed against Tulsa officer Betty Shelby for gunning down distressed motorist Terence Crutcher, the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable and other civil rights organizations held a press conference. They announced that they were calling ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you look at how this election cycle is unfolding at the national level and count losers and winners, African Americans (AA) would have to rank as the biggest losers. You ask, how do you draw that conclusion? Here is how. Even with 1) an African American president sitting in ...