(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s a thing that happens when you get a group of us together in a room. Could be a barbershop, could be a backyard with the grill going, could be somebody’s basement after a long week. The energy is good at first. Laughter, old stories, somebody lying about how ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A brother does not always need more weight on his shoulders. Sometimes he needs a porch, a fishing pole, a good book, and a long walk back to himself. That may sound too simple for this loud age, but simple things have saved plenty of men. A rocking chair ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A Black father’s greatest flex is not what he owns, what he drives, or how many people praise him, but whether his children can look around and know he is still there. That may not sound flashy to folks chasing noise, but ask any grown person still healing from ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) One thing I had to learn the hard way is that a brother can be doing everything people asked of him and still not know how to enjoy his own life. That sounds strange until you have lived it. You can get up early, go to work, keep gas in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes a joke can tell you more about America than a serious speech ever could, and this whole Kevin Hart roast situation got a lot of Black folks sitting back wondering where comedy really ends once Black pain enters the room. Yeah, roasts are supposed to get disrespectful. Everybody ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For many brothers growing up through the late eighties and nineties, Denzel Washington felt familiar long before most of us ever saw him in person. He carries himself like somebody you might hear speaking wisdom at a cookout, sitting on a porch late in the evening, or giving game ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A quiet kind of exhaustion has settled inside countless Black men across America. You can spot it in tired eyes during long grocery lines, inside forced laughter at family cookouts, or within silence during late night drives home after another draining shift. Plenty of folks assume toughness means somebody ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There comes a point in life when a grown brother has to slow down and really think about how he presents himself. Down South, old heads used to say folks size you up before you even shake their hand. A man can tell his whole story without saying much ...