As millions of students around the country returned to school Monday, the Urban League of Greater Miami urged local Black fathers to be involved in their children’s education, first by waking up to take them to school. The Urban League’s push was matched by other organizations in over 700 cities across the United States in a movement tagged Million Fathers March. The program originated in Chicago in 2004 by the Black Star Project, an organization that equips minority children with academic resources. President T. Willard Fair welcomed various father figures like uncles, granddads and stepdads to participate, even making announcements over the radio. “We recognize there are boys in the community who don’t have a daddy but they have a father out there,” he said. “The diversity speaks to the fact that they’re all men.” Some fathers, unaware of the march, were just excited to see their children reach a major milestone. “I can’t stop smiling,” said Tequillan Talley, who had just dropped off his son on his first day of kindergarten at Liberty City Elementary. “We got a special handshake and he couldn’t wait to have all the kids see it.” Talley, a single Black father, said his […]
