I don't live life by statistics, nor do I navigate through life over selling my identity as some brand. However, my identity as a black man from the South Side of Chicago is a part of who I am.

It's Father's Day, and it's time for all of us Daddy's girls and boys to celebrate the man that was partly responsible for our place in this world. ...

Nothing says Thanksgiving like bringing family together. The holidays are the one time of year when brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins unite...

Recently, while thinking of my own grandfather, I began to wonder, what if you could take the best parts of an old school dad and merge them with the best parts of a new school dad.

The narrative, that marriage equality is simply not something that appeals to voters of color, is untrue, and it is time we stop acting like marriage equality is only for white people. The fight for marriage equality is very much a fight about racial justice.

With HuffPost BlackVoices's month-long Parenting section, we hope to help you maximize your family time, and minimize the time you spend feeling frustrated by budgets and behavior and getting your kid to eat broccoli.