It’s Father’s Day and for Black fathers, today and this celebration provoke loads of completely different meanings.
It’s a time once we replicate on our personal experiences with our fathers, our roles as fathers and the way society views us as leaders and suppliers of our households. The roles and the significance of Black fathers within the lives of our kids have developed and our presence has grow to be extra essential as our kids and households face completely different challenges like social media pressures, cellphone utilization, a hostile political scene and social justice points.
However the excellent news is that extra Black fathers than ever earlier than are usually not simply within the residence however extra actively concerned and hands-on than ever earlier than. Our youngsters and households want that.
In celebration of Father’s Day, the Defender examined the roles fathers and males play of their households and the neighborhood in tales similar to College of Houston coach Kelvin Sampson’s love and closeness together with his two children, Damian Valentine’s try to form leaders by means of his mentor program and Black male game-changers.
In our newest episode of the Defender Roundtable, we convened a particular all-men panel that features Dr. Eric Waters of 100 Black Males and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Deric Muhammad, a Houston activist, organizer, and writer, Marcus Sullivan, the operations supervisor at 90.9 FM KTSU and Willie Mitchell, with Black Fathers Matter.
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