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Excellent article by Michael W. Waters My only son turned five years old last week. He is a handsome, articulate, energetic, intelligent, fun-loving and gentle young man. He is the apple of my eye! There’s only one problem: he is Black. And as his father, I am challenged to do for him what generations of [...]

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1. Far Better Men Than I: My Vision for My Sons  2. My Contribution to Society 3. We Were Once Kings 4. Sunday Chat with Dad 5. Call to Fatherhood 6. Rebirth of a Cool Dad 7. The Trials of Single Fatherhood

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Op-ed submission by Project 21  Our nation’s capital exemplifies what America can become, but not in a good way. Results from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey finds abysmally high percentages of single-parent households in underprivileged neighborhoods. As the District of Columbia is a special federal enclave under congressional control, it presents a perfect opportunity for the [...]

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Op-ed submission by Project 21  Conservatives argue that the liberal social programs of the 1960s destroyed the black family as the notion of the black man as the patriarch of his family took a beating. In just a few generations, an intact black family became so hard to recognize that blacks ridiculed the 1980s family sitcom [...]

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“All the children are well” Adapted by Pat Hoertdoerfer from an excerpt of a speech by Rev. Dr. Patrick T. O’Neill Among the most accomplished and fabled tribes of Africa, no tribe was considered to have warriors more fearsome or more intelligent than the mighty Masai. It is perhaps surprising, then, to learn the traditional [...]

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My Brother Carey at Carry Me Home Blog wrote a poignant piece chronicling his family history and comparing it to all of our black history.  In it he asks us to be careful how we treat our history and not to despise it, even if it looks difficult in some places.  Obama belongs to us, and [...]

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Family Thoughts

Preserving the Black man, woman & CHILD does not seem as simple as it sounds.

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