(ThyBlackMan.com) Socioeconomically speaking, black America is in a rut — a very long-lasting rut. At 13.6%, black unemployment remains nearly double that of their white counterparts and higher than it was in 2008. Despite national trends which bally-hooed an inexplicable drop in January from a 2011 average of 15.8%, the economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are growing stories of students from elementary, middle and high school who experience at various levels bullying; this may come in the form of harassment and torment at the amusement of one person ormultiple persons. Statistics from Health Resources and Services Administration estimates that up to 25 percent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Washington Post is back with its third installment of its groundbreaking research on Black women. This installment focuses on Black women being healthier and happier with their weight and looks more than other women. While I agree a little more with this assessment of Black women there remain ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Can we finally talk about it now? Has enough time passed so we can in earnest address the more substantive issues? I would suggest that we’ve had more than enough time to forward Whitney Houston’s obituary to every friend we had, post every imaginable link to our “favorite” moments ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African American’s Power To Dream This blog was written while listening to: ”God Favors Me”, by Hezekia Walker Proverbs Chapter 19:20 KJV “Hear counsel and receive instruction that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end (years).” The 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were tumultuous times in American/African American history ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black History Month (BHM) is often about a reflection of the past, but rarely a projection of the future. Movies, documentaries, speeches and writings often reflect where African Americans, Blacks, Negros or whatever term comforts displays a brutal and challenging history. My contribution on the growth of Black youth ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education.” The recent events in Gwinnett County Georgia proves America still needs Black History Month and the teachings of Dr. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Going into the new year Pastors, Bishops, Apostles, Priests and others of religious faiths should pray over all fathers. Now more than ever in history do we need spiritual guidance, wisdom and protection. I’m a father, educator and mentor, I want to inspire and motivate fathers, step-fathers, grandfathers, fathers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Don’t allow frustration in the classroom prompt you to post inappropriate content online in 2012. As teachers begin to make the transition from holiday relaxation spent with family and friends and back to the business of educational professional at their respective schools, they should remember to reposition and refocus ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember once, Jay Z quoted in an essay to Rolling Stone, that when you hear a great song, you can think about when you first heard it, the sounds, smells, emotions involved etc. That a great song doesn’t try to be anything, it just is. We’ve all seen ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: ‘that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Part 1 “If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.” Carter G. Woodson Having graduated from an HBCU (South Carolina State University) and now working at ...