Where Have All The Black Men Gone? – Source: HuffPost Books

A recurring question has surfaced in mainstream and ethnic media for more than a decade. The phrasing of the question differs depending on who’s asking the question and why, but the question tends to boil down to this: Where have all the black men gone? They’re missing in churches, missing from their families, missing from college campuses, and absent from work. Black women can’t find a man to marry. Black children don’t know where to find their fathers. Where are those guys? (More)

Speaking Truth to Power – The truth about black fathers

This is goood!!! C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

To paraphrase Caesar, as he stood over the gallant Marc Antony, I come not to bury our Fathers, but to praise them, on this "Father’s Day." Now, more than ever before, it is time to tell the truth about African American fathers.

I think of my own my father, who in my worst moments always made me feel as if I were the best thing that ever happened to him. He said it. I felt it. (The GRIO)

Speaking Truth to Power – Obama’s words resonate with reader

I can’t imagine what it is like without my father being involved in my life. I can take the President’s word because he has been in that situation.

However I do know how it is to try to be in a child’s life when the mother moves 4 hours away trying to keep me from being a part of my daughter’s life. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

I thank God for President Barack Obama’s statement on fatherhood (Parade Magazine, June 21). He learned about fatherhood the hard way — through the absence of his father. Nothing hurts children more than an absent father. This leaves a void that can create life-long scars. (Rocky Mount Telegram)