Monday, June 20, 2011
U.S. Congressman John Lewis and Comedian Don "D.C." Curry among crowd at annual charity.
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- Janita Poe
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Hundreds of food lovers from southwest Atlanta and beyond packed an east-end convention room of the Atlanta Civic Center Sunday for the 21st Annual Atlanta Real Men Cook. Launched in 1990, the national 10-city event, features dads and father-figures along with celebrities and elected officials who volunteer time to cook for and serve their specialities to the community. According to the Real Men Cook website, the event is now the leading urban Father's Day experience. It’s a food tasting family celebration featuring men volunteering to cook for and serve the community. Ticket sales proceeds are enjoyed by partnering non-profit organizations in the 10 Real Men Cook cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans…
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Social Media and Talk Radio reveal that some African-Americans are angry at President Barack Obama for saying, on Father's Day, that children need fathers in the home.
"Black women need to do a better job of raising black children... that's why we have all these problems." -- a comment from a man under "70 Percent of Black Women Single," a wildly-popular 2010 YouTube post that has since been taken down by site administrators. When I read the comment above I didn't get mad, I became disturbed. Why? Because I had heard this said in so many words before and, at that moment, I sensed a tangible shift in how our community views the role of the black father. Not only are some African-American males now saying they don't want to marry the women with whom they have children, a small but growing number also are saying —on social media blogs and talk radio—that they don't even believe men are an integral part of …
Post pictures on Cascade Patch today of your father and other great fathers in our community. Happy Father's Day, Daddy!
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- Janita Poe
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Happy Fathers Day to my Father, Pediatrician Booker Poe, a part of this great community since 1969, and Happy Father's Day to all the great Dads! Cascade Patch wants to encourage everyone to post tributes to their fathers or great fathers they know. We will start with this picture of a well-known southwest Atlanta father of four and grandfather of 15, former WXIA-TV Reporter Maynard Eaton (he now lives downtown, but raised his kids in this community). Here he is interviewing another famous dad: Michael Jackson. Have any great pictures of fathers in our community? Post them today and, again, Happy Father's Day!
Lovely9
6:54 pm on Friday, August 31, 2012
I understand what you are saying, but at the same time this needed to be said. I just read the statistics on the black population today in 2012, and its very sad. 42% of the black households have a two parent home, and the Hispanic family percentage is 68%. You have to be responsible about who you are with, and ask yourself the question do you want to be a single parent? Is this man a good man, … more ›