Black Fatherhood

The D.C.-based "Framing Fatherhood" is a visual ode to Black fathers.

After pushing the absent Black father myth, Herschel Walker is being called a hypocrite.

With Father's Day falling right after the Juneteenth holiday, Black organizers share their thoughts on the intersection of liberation and fatherhood.

A new podcast dubbed Black Talk: Conversations with My Son aims to foster healthy conversations between Black fathers and their children.

A group of Black dads from Mississippi cheered on students outside of Barack H. Obama Magnet Elementary on the first day of school.

Matthew Cherry is creating "Hair Love," an animated short film about a Black father trying to do his daughter's hair for the first time.

Ali has been in and out of the hospital a few times recently, once for pneumonia and another time for a urinary tract infection after he was discovered unresponsive in bed.

It’s no surprise that there would be backlash and outrage over the OWN network giving Jay Williams, the Atlanta man with 34 kids by 17 different women who was featured on Iyanla Vanzant’s Fix My Life series, his own reality show. Black Twitter exploded when it was announced this week that Williams would debut this […]

Community Heroes: an in-depth series on the lives and impact of people giving back to our global communities. Kashaun Cooper Sr., Founder of Fathers Rock, Inc. & Author Of “The Champion Father” Base Of Operations: Baltimore, Md. Why he is a Community Hero: Mr. Cooper started his Fathers Rock, Inc., organization after working with a […]

On “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin, NY Post writer Phil Mushnick earned the “Stuck On Stupid” award of the week. Martin spoke with Mediaite columnist Andrew Kirell about Mushnick’s column on Adrian Peterson, the NFL star who lost his two year old son to an alleged beating last week. Martin laces into Mushnick’s offensive op-ed, titled “Being a Great Player Doesn’t […]

[ooyala code=”54MmQzNTqKpDHV-32oaze-sU8ajNMhvL”] Atlanta Hawks center Etan Thomas published his first book, Fatherhood:Rising To The Ultimate Challenge, not only because he wanted to crusade for active fatherhood, but to encourage those who didn’t grow up with fathers as well. “The reality of it is 60 percent of the kids are growing up in single parent households,” Thomas says. […]

NBA superstar Dwayne Wade was given the Fatherhood Award by the National Fatherhood Initiative for his dedication to sons Zaire and Zion. NBC reports: The NFI cited Wade’s dedication to influence underprivileged young in Miami and his hometown of Chicago through his Wade’s World Foundation, which he began in 2005. Wade was awarded custody of […]