(ThyBlackMan.com) Growing up, I measured a certain kind of power by who could stroll into a room and make the whole thing bend around him. For my generation of brothers, that man was Eddie Murphy. Nobody handed him a seat at the table. Dude kicked the door clean off its ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Trust, Desire, and Guilt Collide in Bobby Womack’s “I Wish He Didn’t Trust Me So Much”… A Deep Dive into a Soul Music Classic… Few songs capture the push and pull of longing and guilt like Bobby Womack’s 1985 hit, “I Wish He Didn’t Trust Me So Much.” The ...
(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) Two weeks of headlines about William Roberts, and something keeps sitting heavy on my chest. Not because I know Rozay personally. Because I know us. By now you have seen the stories. The rapper most of us call Rozay walked into a Miami Beach police station on October 1 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is so much negativity in the world these days. The news is depressing, so much violence, despair, craziness, and pessimism, it can weigh on you, bring you down and make you depressed. The good news and the truth are, we always have a choice, we always have options ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some questions sit in your chest and refuse to leave. Mine showed up again the other evening when a rerun flickered across the screen. There was Cliff Huxtable, sweater loud as a jazz solo, dancing in his living room while Clair watched with that look only a wife of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Music icon Sheila E minced no words in lambasting Carson city officials for what may well amount to bungling in the death of Shari Sanders. Sanders’s death was at the sweltering heat held Carson Jazz Festival. Her death ignited a firestorm of debate, recriminations, defense and push back on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some news just lands on your chest and sits there a while. Monday night, Freddie Jackson went home. His family shared it through his own social accounts, saying he had gone on to rest, and just like that a certain kind of radio went quiet for those of us ...
(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) In thinking about how I wanted to approach this column, on this subject, I am reminded of what one of my good friends recently told me over dinner. King Solomon told me in Proverbs 14:12: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Presley Gerber died on Sunday at 27, and so much of the coverage placed his famous parents at the center of the story before the young man himself had a chance to emerge. That reflex tells you everything about the box he lived in. So let this piece do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) San Jose is the most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area, and that scale creates a problem families and adult learners know all too well: a great music teacher might be twenty minutes away, but between school pickups, commuter traffic on 87 and 101, and packed evening ...