"The Black Family" contains essays and poems about self-love written to Black Families. Our bodies survived slavery, but our self-assurance did not survive. The author urges every black person to read this book that tells how to repossess strong feelings of self-love and seeks to bring joy and high self-esteem back into the Black Family. This book is about fatherhood, motherhood, manhood, black is beautiful, giving a child love, being black and male, and a Black Anthem. This book is about the black family from Slavery to today in America. While some will say, a good education is the best thing we can give children, this book shows that a good education must begins with self-love and high self-esteem