Who's Your Daddy (Dad, Father, Pops, Papa, Avo, Guncle, Mentor, Role Model...)?

Men + Fur Babies, fiction

The Great Gatz by Lauren Baratz-Logsted & Jackie Logsted

Ruff and Tumble* by Lucy Gilmore

* Please, please, please tell me this is the start of a Seattle Lumberjacks sports romance series!

Hard Knocks and Victories in the Game of Life, non-fiction

Pass interference: The History of the Black Quarterback in the NFL by Wisdom Martin

Act Like You Got Some Sense, And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me by Jamie Foxx, Corinne Foxx, et al.

Game, An Autobiography by Grant Hill

My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole by Will Jawando

A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story by Rev. Sen. Raphael G. Warnock

Kid Lit

I'm Perfectly Designed by Karamo Brown

Documentaries

After Jackie

The Story of Trailblazing Black Baseball Players Who Fought for a More Inclusive America

history.com

A Dream Delivered: The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson

ancestry.com

Music

This video of Maroon 5 performing "Nobody's Love" August 2020 for Stephen Colbert's The Late Show #PlayAtHome feels relevant in its lyrics and images of men with kids and fur babies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HMelmLQWEk

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