Celebrating My Heroes on Father's Day - The Leavenworth Times

TO THE DADS, UNCLES AND BROTHERS WHO STEPPED IN

By: Roy Douglas Malonson This Father’s Day, we honor the men whose love can’t be measured by DNA alone. Across the Black community, fatherhood has often meant more than biology. It’s been defined by presence, protection, sacrifice—and a commitment to stand in the gap, especially when others walked away. For generations, Black men have been the backbone of families, neighborhoods, and movements. Yet their efforts have often gone unnoticed, overs…

Celebrating my heroes on Father's Day - The Leavenworth Times

As much as I worry about technology changing what I consider to be the norm for today's young families, the transition of dads being more hands-on with the care of their children's' needs is truly the key to why this generation will show us baby boomers how it's supposed to be done.The days of dads not changing diapers or not knowing how to soothe a colicky baby are over. Real men have spit-up on their shirts, know the words to all the songs in …

Celebrate Father’s Day With A Gallery Of Black Celebrity Father-Son Duos We Adore

Source: Rich Fury / Getty As Father’s Day approaches this weekend, it is the perfect time to celebrate the men in our lives who continue to provide for their families and encourage a hopeful future. We curated a special gallery of Black celebrity fathers and their sons to celebrate the occasion. Check out the gallery and read about these beautiful men inside. Often times, Father’s Day is pushed to the back-burner. While it’s opposing holiday, Mo…

PureWow Staffers on the Sweetest, Dorkiest Things Our Husbands Do as Dads

Father’s Day might seem like it’s all about ties, mugs and greeting cards with fart jokes on them. But as we get older and sappier, we kinda think it’s also about the dads. Here at PureWow, we’ve watched our own husbands grow from buffoonish man-children who barely know how to hold a baby to expert swaddlers, Grammy-worthy bedtime singers and good old-fashioned pigskin-throwers who are somehow willing to toss a ball back and forth again…and agai…

Celebrate Father's Day With A Gallery Of Black Celebrity Father-Son Duos We Adore

Source: Rich Fury / Getty As Father’s Day approaches this weekend, it is the perfect time to celebrate the men in our lives who continue to provide for their families and encourage a hopeful future. We curated a special gallery of Black celebrity fathers and their sons to celebrate the occasion. Check out the gallery and read about these beautiful men inside. Often times, Father’s Day is pushed to the back-burner. While it’s opposing holiday, Mo…