I stood transfixed inside Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport the day after New Year’s 2011, and I drank in a scene that squeezed my heart: scores of relatively young black men who are holding, escorting or walking with their children.
I vacillated between pride and anger because I also know I will never see these images on national TV, in the major magazines or gracing mainstream newspapers. Never. Responsible African American males who take care of their children or succeed in corporate America do not translate into good reading as far as the American media are concerned.
