Single Black Motherhood: Preparing Black Boys in the Age of Obama

Countee Cullen Library Auditorium
104 West 136th Street Near Lenox Avenue
New York, NY 10030-2695

Panel Description:
Getting mothers to believe that parenting is an investment and that their sons are princes waiting to be kings!
Discipline and Anger – how to positively communicate and the detriments if not done properly. Education – Understanding the education of black boys. Finance – Money and the black son – a resource that is necessary.
Relationships: Sex, trust, boundaries and roles. How the black son and mother can live as a team and work towards a positive future. Not attacking the absent DNA – the value of positive reinforcement. Resources:
Embracing the local community hero’s and ‘sheros’ and NOT looking for a celebrity to raise the black son.

Parents who choose to participate in parenting have successful outcomes as opposed to taking a chance and not fully utilizing all resources, not fully participating and not fully understanding all of the undertakings of being
a parent!

Panelist Title Publisher
Denise Bolds (Moderator) Raising Princes to be Kings: A Single Black Mother’s Guide to Raising Her Black Son Self Published
Evangelia Biddy Junior Magazine for Boys
M.E. Webb Having Babies by Bums HarperCollins
Cathy Middleton Girl Get That Child Support! Univ. of Michigan Press
Nika Beamon I Didn’t Work This Hard Just to Get Married Lawrence Hill Books
Group Bookselling and Autographing: 4:25p to 4:55p at completion of panel in lobby of Countee Cullen Library Auditorium followed by individual signing from 5:10pm to 5:35pm

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