Becoming dad : Black men and the journey to fatherhood

"The fatherless black family is a problem that increases in proportion each year as generations of black children grow up without an adult male in the home. This work presents a personal examination of black fatherhood. This tale of black men tells the stories of extraordinary men who strive to become something they have never known."@en
"The fatherless black family is a problem that increases in proportion each year as generations of black children grow up without an adult male in the home. This work presents a personal examination of black fatherhood. This tale of black men tells the stories of extraordinary men who strive to become something they have never known."
"Nationally syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. examines his relationship with an abusive father and how that relationship has come to influence how he deals with his own feelings of fatherhood. "It is peopled by an extraordinary cast of other men, the drug dealer, the preacher, the player, the single dad, who strive in the absence of fathers, endeavor in the face of intolerance, seek in the shadow of their own weaknesses, to become what they haven't seen."@en