How did the National Black Family Reunion get started?
A.: It started 24 years ago. There was a CBS documentary called “The Vanishing Family” and when you really followed it through it looked like all there was to the black family was teenage pregnancy. We said we cannot just object to what we see without doing something about it. Certainly we could not fight CBS, but what we could do was bring our families together, to celebrate who we are, to reinforce our traditions and the values that have kept us thus far. We are using this occasion to deal with some of the problems that affect us as well as the things that we hope to see happen. Q.: What do you hope to see happen? A.: The world is based on science and technology. Many of our people are not prepared. That’s why we are stressing education and helping them prepare for the jobs that are needed. Our economic situation is serious, but it isn’t one that we can’t do something about. We can do a lot about it if we prepare to get our children to go to school and stay in school, so that they ca
