Saturday, February 5, 2011 Celebrating black history as the
black family disintegrates COLBERT I. KING Saturday, February 5,
2011; A13 Here we are, another Black History Month: time to
lionize great black men and women of the past. Twenty-eight days
to praise the first African American to do this and the first
African American who did that. Another month of looking back
with pride - as we ignore the calamity in our midst. When Black
History Month was celebrated in 1950, according to State
University of New York research, 77.7 percent of black families
had two parents. As of January 2010, according to the Census
Bureau, the share of two-parent families among African Americans
had fallen to 38 percent. We know that children, particularly
young male African Americans, benefit from parental marriage and
from having a father in the home. Today, the majority of black
children are born to single, unmarried mothers. Celebrate? Let's
celebrate. Three years ago, I wrote about young girls in our
city who are not learnin