(ThyBlackMan.com) I am participating with MSN in a project called “The Invested Life.” The program represents the launch of a series of web-based episodes that teach the fundamentals of investing to regular, everyday people. I’ve worked on the show for months, and I’ll be engaged in the project for the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are signs that equal opportunity has finally reached the most glamorous — and racially charged — position in professional football… Here’s a good measuring stick for progress in the National Football League: The league not only welcomes African-American quarterbacks who are good to great but even makes room ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is (rightly) so much discussion this week about how we, as Americans, can make the education system better for our children. Parents, let me remind you, we are the front line for our children and their education. The change starts with us. In that vein, here are some ways ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even with Roger “No Nonsense” Goodell at the helm of the National Football league (after having succeeded Paul Tagliabue back in 2006), rehabilitated players now making the best of their second changes and initiatives like “NFL Cares” and other league affiliated service organizations making a difference in the lives young ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The African-American poverty rate rose to 25.8 percent in 2009. That the poverty rate would increase from 2008 to 2009 was not a surprise. Black workers lost jobs in 2009. When blacks lose work black poverty increases. Alternatively, when blacks find work poverty declines. The highest employment rate for African ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Plantation owners, overseers, merchants, bankers – all of those who were benefactors of the American enslavement of black people – had a huge stake in eliminating the true identity of the newly-arrived Africans. These benefactors knew that in order for their scheme to be completely effective, they would have to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced TEACH, a national campaign to increase the number of African-American and Latino males being prepared as PK-12 classroom teachers. Nearly 40 percent of public school students are African-American or Latino. In many school districts this statistic hovers above 90 percent. Yet, less than 8 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After serving time for dogfighting, the veteran quarterback brings his considerable talents under control in Philadelphia — and to good effect… Three weeks into the 2010 NFL season, one of the biggest stories is Michael Vick, and this time he’s making headlines for all the right reasons. Since emerging ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “A constant diet of hopelessness will ultimately darken their mental skies and make them believe that their future is bleak and they will, therefore, develop the self-destructive behavior patterns so many of our youth currently exhibit.” Na’im Akbar The headline, “Murders of Young Black Men Rise” by Mike Wilkinson and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me preface this by saying that I am pained by the allegations against Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. My prayer is that God would care for the bishop’s family and his church family, Bishop Long’s accusers and their families also. Now that that is out ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why all Black people should NOT start their own businesses… Copycatting is not a good reason to start your own business. We have enough barbershops and day cares… While entrepreneurship is a viable answer to the economic woes in any community, not everyone of color is capable of starting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If nothing else, Black Americans are resilient. Having survived slavery, Jim Crow and institutional racism, merely existing is to some degree an achievement. What contributed to the perseverance that allowed Blacks to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges was a steadfast determination to gain their birthright as American citizens and their willingness ...