Black Family

NEW YORK (AP) — John Legend will no longer be a bachelor: He’s engaged. The singer’s publicist said Tuesday that Legend proposed to his girlfriend, model Chrissy Teigen, recently in the Maldives. No more details are being provided. Legend has won nine Grammys and released four albums. Teigen was named “rookie of the year” in […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert De Niro is a father again. SEE ALSO: The Disappearing Black Journalist Stan Rosenfield, the 68-year-old actor’s spokesman, says De Niro and his 56-year-old wife, Grace Hightower, welcomed a healthy 7-pound, 2-ounce baby girl named Helen Grace Hightower through a surrogate mother. She is the couple’s second child. Their son, […]

A short film titled “Strange Thing About The Johnsons,” is raising eyebrows over its extremely controversial plot which involves molestation and homosexuality within an African-American family.

WASHINGTON – Count your blessings this holiday season. It’s good for you. While it seems pretty obvious that gratitude is a positive emotion, psychologists for decades rarely delved into the science of giving thanks. But in the last several years they have, learning in many experiments that it is one of humanity’s most powerful emotions. […]

More than 45 years after the Department of Labor issued “The Moynihan Report,” a study which examined the breakdown of the Black family, sociologist Herbert Gans revisited the report, offering his own critique in the Fall 2011 issue of the Du Bois Review. See also: Jay-Z Talks Kanye West Collaboration And Baby With Beyonce See also: […]

Too many times in family communities across the country—  those who have become comparatively financially successful — are unknowingly volunteered to become the “universal provider” within their family circle. I should stress the word “comparatively” because many times those who are MORE successful within a family are also having their own financial problems. But because […]