Ibrahim Abdul-Matin

You can hate war but still honor our veterans.

This evening, after my prayers I made a special prayer for you. And I am not sure if you believe in God or not, but the fact that prayer is sending nothing but positive energy in your direction, I hope everyone who has said their prayers are with you actually pray for you.

Why, Hello Portland, nice to meet you!

“White man in a suit and fancy shoes drops a $20 on the subway platform. I made a decision, but what would you do? Give back to him? Or to the homeless vet by the stairs?”

“We need to get the hell out of NYC,” she said.

There was once-upon-a-time when people threw parties and did not use social media to get the word out. Those parties, without Facebook, Tinder, Evites – none of it, were fresh.

South Carolina was arguably the most vocal and vehemently against leaving slaves out of the census. Along with the other southern slave states, South Carolina argued that the slaves on their land were their property.

My beloved mother-in-law passed. Her springtime passing makes me reflect on all the transitions that we make in life and how we prepare and deal with the ultimate transition.

“Dada needs to work for the next 30 minutes,” I bent down and explained to my boys.

You did not labor and you do not need to sleep now. Your responsibility is to be the bridge from the the safest place that baby will ever know – his mother’s tummy – to the scariest place – the world. You are most needed in this moment, more than you will ever be needed again.

A whole generation of us men who are now fathers were ourselves raised by feminists. And if they were not expressly in the feminist movement, they were women of the times who grew up assuming that winds of change would someday blow in their direction as well.

Terran Tout wrote this brilliant and funny piece about what to stop doing on Facebook. The piece makes me realize just how annoying Facebook has become.

Football is very religious.

Most of us will not become president by the time we are 42.

I think it says that patriarchy and misogyny are way deeper and way more insidious and institutionalized than many are willing to admit.

There is so much that happens in the course of a business day that sometimes we do not get time to just think quietly.

Despite the uproar and outrage about the obvious physical abuse that took place, Rice received a paltry two-game suspension from the NFL.

Life without a phone has allowed me to reflect on everything I used it for…