Dominique Mack

The State of Black Fatherhood: A Community of Family

The product of a teenage mother and absentee father you’d believe that Wallace’s chances for success were slim. Combine those odds with being Black and male in a society...

The State of Black Fatherhood: Parenting Behind Bars

At age eleven Imani’s world would drastically change forever. “I had just came home from school...

Finding Fatherhood 

I've never known fatherhood until I saw it in my daughter’s father. My own father unknown...

Mothering Myself

If all I ever was is Zora’s mama that wouldn’t be enough for me. Although, I...

Shame On Me

Shame on me. When we look at ourselves in the mirror, do we see our reflection...

When You’ve Been Abandoned

Pain is something we never get use to and none of us are immune. Either unknowingly or deliberately along life’s journey we’ve all encountered...

An Uncertain Place

Things change abruptly, plans fail, dreams are diminished, bad things happen. Without warning. And definitely without our permission. In an instance, everything that made sense...

Nobody’s Savior

Sometimes you've got to let people fall on their face, scrape their knee, break a few bones, suffer an unrecoverable injury and you not...

In Your Eyes

For sister-friends, brothers, cousins, daughters, sons, fathers, mothers, and people everywhere who’ve given up on love. One day somebody’s going to walk in your life...

In Your Eyes

For sister-friends, brothers, cousins, daughters, sons, fathers, mothers, and people everywhere who’ve given up on love. One day somebody’s going to walk in your life...

The Homeless Heart

I wonder if the pieces of my heart are still left out there. Are the pieces searching for me? Are they affixed between the...