(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ask me which records I’d grab if the house caught fire and I never even have to think. Nineteen seventy two through seventy six. One man at the center of it all, and he flat tore up everything the rest of us figured a record was supposed to be. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So the word came down Friday out of Los Angeles, and anybody near a hip hop timeline that afternoon felt the room shift. Lil Durk was cleared in federal court on all five counts. Not guilty straight across the board. The twelve who held his fate sat with it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I just came out of my home studio. I wrote a song called Laura Loomer Please Stop, for really complex reasons that had a lot to do with my life as a father to a daughter, Kathryn Cherise. She is a brilliant young woman and she has recently earned ...
(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) The news of Cassandra Wilson’s passing gave me pause before I could find the words to write. One of the most distinctive and influential voices in American music is gone. News of her death broke today, September 2, 2026. She died at home in Jackson, the same Mississippi ground ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Country legend Dolly Parton was known for her powerful voice, bubbly personality, and timeless music. But there was another side of Dolly Parton, a side that she quietly and consistently showed up for the Black community. As a lad, this writer grew up in the “hood” but was fascinated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a particular kind of foolishness that only pride can buy. Duane Davis, the man the streets came to know as Keffe D, spent close to two decades telling anybody with a microphone or a publishing deal exactly how Tupac Shakur died. He talked to police. He talked ...