Why my black is beautiful… My name in Hebrew means, “asked of God”, and for all my life I’ve been wondering, what exactly did they ask for?  I come from a legacy of men with great ambitions for their families.  From my paternal great grandfather Marshall Wakefield, a sharecropper who escaped away on a horse…

Today marks the beginning of Black History Month, and with it also begins an important opportunity for parents everywhere to ensure all kids learn about the contributions of Black Americans to our country.  In particular, as a Black father with two daughters, I look forward to this time of year.  However, I wonder if we…

This is my daughter last year in DC at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.  It’s remarkable how much one man’s impact has stretched for generations, beyond his own family.  But it also makes me wonder, how did his own kids turn out? I believe that the true legacy of a man, is what he instills into his…

One of my favorite scriptures is Psalm by David, commit everything you do to the Lord, trust Him, and He will help you.  As a parent, you’ll never be perfect, but you can always get better.  And as fathers, we need all the resources we can get when it comes to parenting and fathering.  Recently I’ve…

  I’m sitting here at 10:48 pm and I can’t go to sleep because I just finished what is perhaps one of the more riveting books I’ve read in a while, Tony Wagner’s The Global Achievement Gap.  Before I proceed, I must confess that I’m an ed-head as my friend affectionately calls me, which means that…

January 6, 2014- Man, there’s a lot to being a stay at home dad, I have a lot of respect for those guys.  Today I had a glimpse of as I tried to juggle working from home with my youngest daughter (18 months).  My oldest was in school, but as circumstance would have it, grandma…