When I first interviewed then-candidate Barack Obama on his campaign plane in 2008, he talked passionately about fatherhood, uplifting Black men, and the importance of men of color taking responsibility for parenting their children. Two terms in the White House and eight years later, President Obama is still talking eloquently about empowering Black men in […]
We’ve all heard about the problems associated with kids consuming too much technology. It discourages critical thinking, imagination and other useful skills that they’ll need to be productive adults. Aside from limiting a child’s consumption of tech or banning it altogether, there is a way to turn a love of gadgetry into useful knowledge that […]
As your go-to girlfriend, it might sound crazy for me to point out that girlfriends, as wonderful and needed as they may be, are not…
The Senate confirmation process for Loretta Lynch to become the first Black female U.S. Attorney General was never going to be a cake walk, but…
Manhood in the Black community is at a crossroads. Some would say it always has been. And as we become more and more removed from…
Right now, my soul is divided. For I am both a man of a generation where children were spanked and people believed in their privacy.…
I am a daughter of women’s liberation. I am the offspring of the generation who believed that women could do any thing they wanted to…
Have you ever wondered why some people strive to do great things, others settle for the best thing that comes along, and still others have…
When you’re conceiving a baby, you’re rarely thinking about paid maternity leave, childcare costs, how much time you’d get off when your kids get sick…
