(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in 2015 while on an African visit, John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State boldly said to the audience: “We have to do much more than just celebrate our history; we have to build the future.” Seems ironic that he would have to make such statements, but the truth is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Elbert Hubbard once said, Positive anything is better than negative nothing. Our biggest daily challenges do not exist in the mundane jobs we perform or in the roles we occupy each given hour. Our most challenging job as human beings is to ward off the constant attacks of negativity that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A few minutes into the first presidential debate between Trump and Clinton, Hillary Clinton did the very thing that I cringe at and hoped she would not do. She went after Trump on a point about jobs and their alleged loss to China, Mexico, and just about everywhere else you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The pundits say the presidential debate was the most watched debate in US history. Wow. I watched the first presidential debate Monday evening and I must say, it doesn’t look good for this country. What I saw alarmed me but the after show analysis was even more disturbing. It appeared ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We live in a relationship reality; each day of our lives is shaped by it. Much of who we are – for better or worse – stems from a relationship, whether personal or interpersonal. Our first relationship is with Divinity, God. Absent a relationship with a Higher Power, we are ...
(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 ...