Unemployed Dads Being Jailed for Non-Payment of Child Support

By: Lynnel H. Bott, Your Black World

President Obama Makes His Wishes Clear When It Comes to His Daughter’s First Automobile

by Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World

Just because President Barack Obama runs the United States, it does not mean that he is exempt from the benign symptoms of fatherly love. While giving a speech to the auto industry on Friday, CNNreports that he said:

Community Comes Together to Support Family After Husband and Father Killed in Motorcycle Accident

Robert Tooley was killed on his motorcyle in a recent accident. This led to the community coming together to show love and support for his wife and children in their time of need.

Boyce Watkins, Steve Perry, Michael Eric Dyson, Jawanza Kunjufu and Marc Lamont Hill Star in Upcoming Film, Hoodwinked

Can a Woman Raise a Boy to be a Man without Male Intervention? Most Men Don’t Think So

 

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Julius Kane: Why Good Times is Far More Relevant than the Cosby Show Will Ever Be

By Julius Kane

Stop playin' 'Good Times' was better than 'The Cosby show' for real; the first three seasons before the father's character was killed off, anyway. You can run around town and act like you're embarrassed of 'Good Times' but I sure as hell ain't. A couple of so called critics even said 'The Cosby Show' was a "real depiction of a Black family." Again, stop playin'. How realistic is it even in WHITE AMERICA for a doctor to be married to a lawyer, have half a dozen kids and they all go to college? What did 'The Cosby Show' teach you? Sure, it made you wish for a better life and smashed a lot cultural stereotypes. But 'The Cosby Show'wasn't the best Black television show of all time; not by a long shot.  In actuality'The Cosby Show' was the best Black television show for White folks to watch. It allowed White folks to see a different side of the Black experience and gave Black folks faces, places and images they could finally be proud of.

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