(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, I was scheduled to attend the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in New Orleans, but, after receiving a copy of the agenda with the list of speakers, I decided to cancel my trip. I think the NABJ should change its name to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The national and international audiences ranged in several hundred men, women and even youth as young as elementary age students that enjoyed working on the digital platform WordPress. Present were developers, coders, graphic designers and web developers. Using WordPress to design, build, modify and share content on diverse digital platforms tied ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Parents and their children talking about the influence of technology and the family structure. Can sometimes be a conflicting and heated discussion. Technology is slowly unraveling the family structure of bonding as one to being lead to unravel like twine from a bundle. Talking with families like the Harris family ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Center for the Prevention of Health Disparities Providing relevant information is what entrepreneurs are in need of to assist in establishing a viable and growing business. The New Town Success Zone provides business services that promote networking for business owners and real advice from experiences and active business ownership. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Learning about and using Snapchat and other online Social platforms can be fun and open doors for positive digital connections, but there are dangers that parents must understand are a reality. Apps can open digital doorways into being digitally visual more than children need to be and allow for stalking ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Professional Learning Networks + Professional Learning Communities = Professional Learning Families. The voices that help to manage EdCamp inspires collaboration and professional development on a foundational level for educational professionals even on the continent of Africa. African educators can benefit from EdCamp participation helping to manage the diversity of students. Diversity is not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In today’s digital society HBCUs or what is known as Historically Black College and University students cannot allow others to Brand them. No one should be allowed to take their voice nd use it against them or describe them. There are billions of people on the planet, each person from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My “Rewriting American History” column of a fortnight ago, about the dismantling of Confederate monuments, generated considerable mail. Some argued there should not be statues honoring traitors such as Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, who fought against the Union. Victors of wars get to write the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When talking to the youth, teens and young adults at Abyssinia Baptist Church recently, it is clear that there is a disconnect between adults and children. The perceptions of life and survival are bordered on uncontrolled opportunities to stop bullying only by physical confrontation and that even telling teachers, administrators and law enforcement ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) George Orwell said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” In the former USSR, censorship, rewriting of history and eliminating undesirable people became part of Soviets’ effort to ensure that the correct ideological and political spin was put ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The inclusion of technology especially the explosion of wireless technologies provide African American and African children a great opportunity to share their voices. No time in human history has the human voice been able to reach so many people instantly and so powerfully. Digital technologies have embedded themselves in the lifestyles of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I have observed this in my experience of slavery, — that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.” —Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” ...