We both experienced our memories pushing back against the widely held idea of a disengaged—or completely absent—Black father. An Editor of mine used to say, "If it bothers you or makes you ...

‘What father you got?’ I was challenged on more than a few occasions, as if my dad were in prison, or worse, just simply absent,” he writes. The absent Black father stereotype has origins in a 1965 ...

"I couldn't imagine what it would feel like if you were a black child, sitting in class and reading a statement like that. "I do acknowledge that the number of families with absent fathers is ...