We’ve got you covered if you’re looking for some last-minute gifts for the dad who travels or loves to travel. Jet-set dads who are on the go will love the gifts we’ve found. Successful Black Parenting Father’s Day Travel Gift Guide 2022 will keep dad looking stylish, traveling light, and happy throughout the year. We want you to tag us in a photo on our Twitter or Instagram account of dad with one of these fabulous products listed here, for our Father’s Day Challenge. Challenge on! Travel Lightly Make life a bit more convenient with this portable charger that connects to his laptop ..read more

Finding a gift for our fathers is always challenging; they rarely give us any indication about what they want! While we may have relied on generic gifts for the previous few years, we have ample of time left to put together a great gift for him. Since they’ve always been our first superhero who helped us grow into this wonderful person we are today, finding a worthy gift for him is exactly what you need to do. What better way to do this than by giving him understated presents that are thoughtful and memorable? Let’s face it, many fathers’ rarely show us how they really feel; they al ..read more

Sponsored Post Single parenting is fraught with challenges and the struggle may last for a lifetime. Apart from the physical and emotional responsibilities, the financial ones may leave you overwhelmed. Unless you have solid finances, alimony or child support, things can be really difficult to manage. For such single parents, there is the problem of single income and you may never have enough to fulfill the needs and desires of your kids. Still, you wouldn’t want to fail on any front when it comes to giving the best to your children. Everything boils down to your finances; right from ..read more

Black Fathers Matter One of the favorite ‘songs’ that racists love to ‘sing’ is that “Black people have absentee fathers” as if we don’t know that’s not true or perhaps they don’t think we know our own culture that we live every day to know better. They obviously haven’t gotten the memo!  Yet, they come at us as if they are the experts in our culture. It’s amazing their audacity to tell another person about their ethnic group as if they’ve  studied it and lived it, yet if they did, they would know the myth is not true. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) did a study a ..read more

Black males are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white males (Edwards, Lee, Esposito, 2019). The killing of Black men by police is a traumatizing experience for individuals of any age group, but this is especially true for children who resemble the victims, in this case Black boys. As a parent myself, who is the father of three sons, the impact of these events cannot be overstated. Through the advent of social media and cell phones, Black boys have, unfortunately, witnessed the mu ..read more

Contributed Post: We recently celebrated International Men’s Day. It’s a contentious awareness day. Some would argue that men do not need a day of international recognition since the cultural, economic and business decks are tipped so heavily in their favor but when it comes to Black men, we know that the deck is often stacked against them. We must celebrate our hard-working men, just as mothers must be recognized for their hard work. Heck, according to the World Economic Forum the gender pay gap could take over 200 years to close if we carry on at our current trajectory. Nonetheless, many h ..read more

Reflections of a proud father: My daughter Kathryn, declared after graduating from Kindergarten, “Girls can do anything dad. One day, I’m gonna be a doctor!” I responded incredulously, “You go girl!” I will revisit this premise again at the close of this article. “Girls can do anything dad. One day, I’m gonna be a doctor!” I responded incredulously, “You go girl!” One needs only look at the race for the Alabama Senate in October of 2017 to see how powerful Black women are. The seat was vacated by Attorney General, Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions, pitting Doug Jones against suspected child pred ..read more

From 1993 to 2012, the prevalence of suicide attempts among Black boys nearly doubled, and the rate of self-injury has climbed steadily in recent years. Despite these staggering figures, the stigma of many Black folks, particularly fathers, continues to perpetuate this public health crisis. Photo by Lacy Atkins I do not raise this issue to shame Black fathers, but instead to shed light on the toxic masculinity that underlies many Black men’s stigma of mental health. Our society’s pervasive culture of toxic masculinity has its roots in chattel slavery. This morally depraved economic system ..read more

My 4-year-old son, Owen, is the coolest lil’ dude you’ll ever meet. Now I’ll admit, I may be somewhat biased because I’m his dad. But he really is pretty amazing. He is smart, but don’t just take my word for it, his preschool teacher said he has an “engineer’s brain,” and she should know because her son is an engineer. He is funny, and not just little kid funny, either. I’m talking about Chris Rock funny but without the cussing. His creativity is apparent nearly every day when he shows my wife and I the masterpieces he colors at school and insists we find yet another spot on his bedroom wall ..read more

Recommended for children Ages 7-12 What better way to celebrate Father’s Day and the lineage of dads than reading about Papa Lemon in the book series of his namesake, “Papa Lemon’s Little Wanderers.” Author Lehman Riley immortalized his childhood hero, his grandfather known as Papa Lemon, in children’s books that he wrote in honor of him. In Riley’s books, a group of children become explorers and travel back in time to visit great African-American leaders and to experience historical events in a time-machine that is an old train engine. In the first book of the series, the group of Lit ..read more