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  • Happy (Belated) Father's Day, Featuring The VSB Babies

    I’ve been sitting here for a few minutes thinking of an excuse for publishing a Happy Father’s Day piece a day after Father’s Day. Well, an excuse other than “We’re Black as hell, man. You all, of all people, should know this by now.” But bullshit excuses are for Marcia Clark and Warriors fans. (Too soon?)…

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    Damon Young

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  • What My Father and Juneteenth Taught Me About Having ‘Expectations’

    I wouldn’t know Juneteenth without my father. He’s the Texan. He grew up celebrating the holiday that started on June 19, 1865, when slaves on Galveston Island, Texas, finally learned they’d been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation two years prior. Even though he now lived in St. Louis, he’d always make the same jokey reference…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • How Social Media Is Helping to Change the Image of Young Black Dads

    When mainstream media paints a picture of black fatherhood, the image is usually marred by racialized prejudices and stereotypes about black manhood in general. Case in point: Remember the little boy who fell into the gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo, resulting in the death of the endangered silverback gorilla, Harambe? (Of course you do.)…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • How 1 NYC Man Is Helping People Create Their Dream Families for Free

    Going about having a baby the traditional route isn’t an option for everyone. Whether you’re a single woman, single man, in a gay relationship or a hetero couple with fertility issues, sometimes the only option is a visit to a cryobank to buy some sperm. But guess what? Sperm ain’t cheap. And it’s not covered…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • A Man Like Him: To My Godfather

    I read recently that dreams always start in the middle. There is no real beginning, there is no chronological sequence; just snapshots of visions in jarring order. I think memories work the same way. A lot of my more important memories seem to be snapshots of the climax in a particular moment, or glimpses filled…

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    Danielle Butler

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  • Celebrating Black Fatherhood With #7DaysOfBlackDads

    Father’s Day is steadily approaching, and it’s a holiday that deserves to be celebrated boldly and proudly. Black fathers are often maligned (go ahead, Google “black father” and see what results you get) in the media, even though we see, experience and all know some amazing men who nurture, love and cherish their children. We want…

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    Danielle Young

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  • A Story About My Dad

    It was a Monday. I was 11 years old, a guard on the St. Barts Bruins JV basketball team. We were a week away from our first game of the season, and our hot-to-death new uniforms — reversible tanks with our last names on the back and long cotton shorts with the school’s logo on…

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    Damon Young

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