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(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 fast he used to run back in the day. Then one of us gets quiet. Maybe he opens up a […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ll say the quiet part first. Tyler Perry drives me crazy. He also amazes me. And I gave up a while ago trying to pick one, because watching his stuff feels like arguing with a cousin you love who keeps making the same mistake at every cookout. My auntie had the plays before they were anywhere. Bootleg DVDs, the camera shaking in the back of some theater, the audio […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I think about what these two have done, I don’t start with the songs. That feels strange coming from somebody who has loved this music his whole life, but stay with me a second. Music was only ever the front door. What Beyoncé and Jay-Z actually constructed is the whole house behind it. A foundation. A deed. A family that gets to live there long after the radio […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Growing up, somebody always told me soccer was the sport you picked when you couldn’t hang on the basketball court. Made me laugh every time. The cats I knew who could really go, the ones with touch and vision, were pure athletes. Quick feet, lungs that wouldn’t quit, a mind running three steps ahead of everybody else. I played in high school myself. Never a star, but I held […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Closing out this month of celebrating Black Music, I would like to do some sankofa sharing of some essential sensitivities and thoughts about the meaning and magic of Black music. Although we celebrate June as Black Music Month, every day and hour is an open space for making and celebrating our music. We do it not only in writing, playing and performing of sounds and songs. But also, we […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Yes, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist picks just knocked off some Democratic incumbents in New York City. They included surprising defeats, especially that of Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Espaillat lost to Darializa Avila Chevalier, whose social media swims with past calls to abolish the police, free prisoners and stop deportations for any reason, presumably including murder. It’s not like Espaillat’s district was dominated by the […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) I have been watching this country choose its leaders for longer than I care to put in print, and if you do that long enough you start to notice the things that nobody says out loud. There is a quiet in American politics, a thing that lives underneath the speeches and the polling and the cable noise, and every so often somebody comes along who makes that quiet audible. […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) In today’s fast-paced business landscape, achieving and maintaining ISO certifications—such as ISO 9001 for quality management or ISO 27001 for information security—has become a critical trust signal. Historically, the path to compliance was dominated by traditional, manual auditing giants like BSI and SGS. While these legacy institutions offer established brand recognition, their methodologies remain heavily anchored in manual processes. Today, a new paradigm is emerging. Modern organizations are increasingly […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) June is almost gone. Black Music Month goes out the door with it, and honestly there’s no better company to see it off than these two. People love to stand them back to back and make it a fight. Always have. It sells, I guess. Gives a morning show something to argue about between traffic and weather. But I’ll tell you, the longer you live with the records, the […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) I have been writing about politics long enough to remember when the idea of a Black family living in the White House was something folks only said in low voices, half dream and half dare. So when Michelle Obama walked through that door back in 2009, I watched the way an old man watches his granddaughter step onto a big stage. Proud, sure. Nervous too. Because I already knew […]