"A Father's Promise" Premiering Sunday Feb 8th on MSNBC @ 8ET

I am lucky in the fact that I have my father in my life. It was unfortunate that for the majority of my life he has been in another state, but I always look at it as he could have easily not been involved at all (He and my mom were never married). So this is a very sensitive issue to me. I think a lot of the problems that the African-American community can be traced back to fatherless homes, so I encourage everyone to watch this program on MSNBC.

Here is a video from Tiki Barber who will be involved in a round table discussion along with some information about the program:

"A Father's Promise" is a thought-provoking documentary and attempts to understand this issue better. It includes a cross-section of African-Americans, including NBC's Al Roker and Tiki Barber, who come together for a round-table discussion of these situations and issues. The other round-table participants are Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey; Rev. Eugene Rivers, a Boston pastor and MSNBC analyst; Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Princeton university professor of politics and African American studies; and Marni McKoy, Heru's Principal at Link Community School in Newark."