Thunderbolt display becomes black, forcing manual reboot

I have a TB 27 "display with graphic AMD over-pants D500 3072 MB connected to my MacPro (2013) on El Capitan (v. 10.11.3).  TB Firmware is up-to-date.

Occasionally, while in Safari, TB will be suddenly go dark and stay there.  I have to manually turn off the MP, and then reboot.  I thought it was a problem of Parallels (where I was running a virtual machine for Windows 10), so I stop Parallels unless I specifically to use Windows.  With firm Parallels, you connect to a website (msevensoftware.com), the display of the TB is now black.  Yet once I had to manually stop the MP, then restart to clear.

Update your Mac v10.11.4.

Click on your Apple  top left of your screen.

In the drop-down list, click software update

Your Mac may restart several times during the update process. It's normal.

If the screen goes back even after the update, reset the System Management Controller (SMC)

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