Family Health

via BlackDoctor: Weight has pretty much always been a struggle for me for as long as I can remember. Growing up, I was always the chubby kid and even throughout my teenage years I was always the big guy. Fortunately enough for me, I was never teased because of my weight so I didn’t develop […]

Family Research Council’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) today issued its fifth annual “Index of Family Belonging and Rejection.” The Index charts the present…

Family Research Council’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) today issued its fifth annual “Index of Family Belonging and Rejection.” The Index charts the present…

Entertainment

America’s favorite “twins next door,”  Tia Mowry-Hardrict andTamera Mowry-Housley, grace the cover of the EBONY May issue. And in the special Black Family issue, Tia and Tamera open up about their business, fame, personal lives and growing up in front of the camera. The former child stars are now entrepreneurs who launched NEED Brands, a company that provides wholesome and […]

Only 46 percent of children in the United States will reach age 17 having grown up in a home with biological parents who are married — a figure that has a significant impact on the nation’s graduation, poverty and teenage birth rates, according to a new report.

National

A new television documentary will tackle the issue of broken families in Black communities all across the United States. “On My Own” will present the stories of African American mothers who are struggling to raise children without help from the men who fathered them. The hour-long presentation will explore the impact absent fathers have on […]