By Joe Jones (jjones@cfuf.org) – the founder of the Center for Urban Families in Baltimore and Joan Entmacher Joe Jones (jentmacher@nwlc.org) is the vice president for Family Economic Security at the National Women’s Law Center. Raising a child takes a lot of love, time and money — and doing it alone is tough. Children need and…
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Courtesy of Carde Cornish About two dozen dads — all African-Americans, ranging in age from their early 20s to late 40s — are standing in a circle participating in a call-and-response exercise: Call: You done broke them chains. Response: From my body and my brain! Call: But you was deaf, dumb and blind. Response: ‘Til…
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