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Fatherhood - How I Became a Dad

2020

04:37 min

The Black Parenting Book: Caring for Our Children in the First Five Years

The parents of America’s 3.6 million black children under age six face unique challenges and, until now, there has not been one complete resource for them.

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Allison Abner, Linda Villarosa, Anne C. Beal
1998
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How to Talk with Your Kids About Donald Trump

The GOP candidate is creating fear and confusion in children, especially kids of color. Here are three suggestions for talking with kids about race and racism in the media.

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Allison Briscoe-Smith
2016
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Mom & Me & Mom

For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence absent during much of Angelou’s early life.

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Maya Angelou
2013
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid’s tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that.

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Nefertiti Austin
2019
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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race

The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter―and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams
2020
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Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America’s Toughest Communities

In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration.

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Jorja Leap
2016
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Latham Thomas Is a Woman on a Mission

She says attention needs to be paid to ending systemic racism throughout all of Black people’s lives—as well as in their safety in birth. And given Latham’s line of work, that last piece is a topic that’s particularly important to her.

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Tonya Russell
2020
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