WASHINGTON, D.C., February 21, 2013, (Acton Institute) – Brittney C. Cooper, Assistant professor of Women’s and Gender studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, writes at Ebony Magazine.com that President Obama is being unfair to the black community by pointing out that many of the violence-related pathologies in inner cities are a result of fatherlessness. Cooper objects saying, Instead when the president began by suggesting that we need to “do more to promote marriage and encourage fatherhood,” I started shaking my head. Rather than empathizing with those Black families that have been destroyed by violence, he blamed the prevalence of non-nuclear Black […]
21 billboards and over 100 bus and light rail posters have been placed by The Radiance Foundation, partnering with the Virginia Coalition for Life, throughout the Hampton Roads region to raise awareness of the impact of fatherlessness on (born and unborn) children.