(ThyBlackMan.com) The debate rages over whether Mississippi high school football player Nolan Wells was the tragic victim of drowning. Or was he the victim of foul play? This brings back a painful memory for me. One that has been a cause of uncertainty and agony in my family for decades. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black men have access to more information in a single day than our fathers could have imagined, and most of it slides right through us without leaving a mark. Let me tell you what got me thinking about it again. I was in the break room at work a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let us start with good news, because there is some. Caught before it has spread far, prostate cancer is one of the most survivable cancer diagnoses a man can receive. The five year relative survival rate approaches 99 percent when prostate cancer is diagnosed at a local or regional ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There comes a point in a man’s life when the way he dresses stops being a matter of taste and starts being a matter of self respect, and a whole lot of us blew past that exit without ever checking the sign. My cousin Reggie turned forty eight in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On the nineteenth of June, on Juneteenth of all days, the doors of the Obama Presidential Center swung open to the public in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago. Eight stories. Nineteen acres. A library branch, a basketball court, gardens and a great lawn. Eight hundred and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People been arguing about who really pushed Michael for going on forty years now, and most of them are looking in the wrong direction. It was not Prince. It was not Madonna moving units, and it was not whoever the radio decided to prop up that season. If you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have a very close family member who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. So, when famed actor, humanitarian, and political activist Danny Glover courageously announced that he was battling the disease I loudly applauded. I applauded for two good reasons. One, I know firsthand the monumental pain, suffering, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is an old wisdom I inherited from men who worked with their hands and thought with their whole lives, and it went something like this. A house is only as sound as the ground it sits on. I have carried that idea into my later years, and I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week I am thinking about what it means to go back to school in a country that still rations opportunity. The stores are selling backpacks and dorm décor, but the deeper question is who gets access to education, who must borrow for it, and which institutions continue to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are moments when history reaches across the centuries with startling clarity. Standing in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, and looking at Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory of Good and Bad Government,” I had one of those moments. Nearly 700 years old, the series of fresco paintings includes a depiction ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sit in any barbershop long enough and you will hear a young man’s whole character decided over the hum of the clippers. Russell Wilson got decided in mine years back, and the ruling came down the same every time somebody said his name. Soft. Too polished, too churchy, grinning ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During a press conference following his July 7 meeting with Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump calmly raised a military technology issue that eight years ago triggered a major NATO alliance political quarrel. Trump told the press gaggle his administration just might sell NATO member and reliable ...