(ThyBlackMan.com) In February 2011 a housing segregation study conducted by researchers from Brown University and Florida State University based on the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data concluded that two New York suburban counties on Long Island, Nassau County and Suffolk County, are jointly the seventh most racially segregated major metropolitan ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An 18-year old student at the University of Cincinnati was killed this weekend after being stunned by a police taser. Everette Howard, a student in a summer program preparing him for college, died after the attack. Friends say that Howard was trying to break up a fight in front ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There was a saying a few years back that served many of us well: “Poor planning on YOUR part does not necessarily constitute an emergency on MY part!” Just as one does not seek to run a marathon, enter into a marriage, or start a business without preparing for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no right more precious in our nation than the right of citizens to cast a ballot on Election Day. That is why generations of Americans have sacrificed and even died in efforts to expand the right to vote. Yet across the country, powerful corporate interests and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Playing the race card is no longer working for the Democratic Party. That stunning pronouncement was made by Bernard Goldberg, author of “A Slobbering Love Affair”. This momentous turn of events highlighted by Goldberg was welcome news to us in the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) who launched our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Social Security is indeed a Ponzi scheme” – Texas Governor Rick Perry, November 2010. Social Security is one of Americans’ most important safety-nets. The current Social Security program is a mainstay for women. Women are 52 percent of all adult beneficiaries, including retirees, the disabled, and the survivors of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, the Pew study that found that African-American households lost about 53% of inflation-adjusted median wealth during the Great Recession was released. Instead of focusing on what we’ve lost. Let’s take a look at what we can do to build our net worth. Understand, and agree to, everything ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I need no picture for what I want to do right now. I just want to write. I think that is my purpose of being in Dallas, Texas this summer. I have not written freestyle in a long time. I have not been on a microphone in a long ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Barack Obama was elected as the president of the United States, black liberals dreamily believed that the numerous maladies in the black community would cease to exist. They believed that his election was indicative of a vigorous wind of political and social change that was blowing across the country. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine for a moment what it would feel like to work less – if you could focus more on your family and other things that matter in your life. Work is good, especially when you are passionate about it. But there’s more to life than work, so what would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that Fox News is at it again. The same network that has commentators like Eric Bolling, who asked why President Obama was “inviting so many hoods to the hizzy” referenced his 50th birthday party as a “Hip-Hop Barbecue.” President Obama’s party, which was private, served typical picnic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Chuck D took some flack recently for a response that he made to the critically acclaimed track dropped by Jay Z and Kanye West backed by generous “samples” of the legendary Otis Redding. The song in question “Otis” is upon a cursory glance an ode to materialistic things, luxury ...