Malcolm Miller: Bigger than Basketball

I want to tell you about my father, Robert Miller. I think about him a lot right now.

Him and my mom, Sheila, raised me and my siblings in Gaithersburg, Maryland. My dad was one of the first Black managers in his job with AT&T. He was always open with me about what that was like.

He had to deal with the problems of being that exceptional Black guy in the workforce, where people would wonder if he was there for affirmative action. Then he had to juxtapose living that life with his friends back home who were mostly Black and not in the most well-off neighbourhood. Balancing those lifestyles and understanding that, I feel like I learned a lot from that.

That’s a difficult thing, you know? To be a…