(ThyBlackMan.com) Word came down Friday that Sean Combs got moved again, shipped from Fort Dix in New Jersey over to a low-security federal prison called Allenwood in Pennsylvania. The Bureau of Prisons confirmed the transfer on October 16. Only days before that, reports surfaced that he had suffered a head ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Time exists independently of humanity and is neither influenced by nor dependent on us. Instead, we realize through experience that we are subject to and reliant on time. Ultimately, we learn that time is a major force behind change. Everyone on life’s journey has probably learned or is still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have stood at too many gravesides this year. Every one of them hands me the same lesson, and every time I act surprised to get it. We put things off. The tough talk waits. A kind word stays stuck in the throat. The pictures sit in a drawer, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For all the talk about Black men and rivalry, about crabs in a barrel and one seat at the table, the most important film partnership of the past decade has spent its whole run quietly arguing the opposite case. I came up in a time when we were taught, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a photograph in my head of Michael at his peak, tongue out, rising toward a rim that never seemed far enough away to stop him. Most of us carry some version of that image. It got burned into a whole generation. What fewer of us sit with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me talk plain for a minute. Something strange has followed Shedeur since draft night last spring, and it is getting worse instead of better. Grown folks who have never met the kid treat every rough throw like a personal wound. A missed read turns into a conspiracy. Any ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember the night in November 2008 when grown Black men in my circle wept without any shame at all. One of our own stood before the world as our incoming president, and a thing we had been raised to believe impossible suddenly breathed. That moment mattered. It still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somebody decided a while back that a serious Black man ought to look as if he is hauling a boulder up a hill. I never agreed to that. My pushback happens right here in the kitchen, volume up, nothing loud about it. Most of what gets published about brothers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Political parties trade in loyalty, yet no Black man should hand a campaign the right to decide whom he respects, mentors, hires, or stands beside, especially not an outfit that will forget his name the morning after the votes are counted. I have lived long enough to watch good ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There was a stretch of years where laughing at Russell Wilson turned into something close to a national pastime. Dude could barely finish a sentence before an account grabbed the audio and chopped it into a joke for the timeline. The talk about drinking water and staying separated from ...
(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) 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 ...