African American families : a historical note / John Hope Franklin -- The Nguzo Saba and the Black family : principles and practices of well-being and flourishing / Maulana Karenga and Tiamoyo Karenga -- Interpreting the African heritage in African American family organization / Niara Sudarkasa -- Conceptualizations and research of African American family life in the United States : some thoughts / Jualynne Elizabeth Dodson -- African American family life : an instrument of culture / Wade W. Nobles -- African American education : a cultural-ecological perspective / John U. Ogbu -- Religion in African American families / Harriette Pipes McAdoo -- Old-time religion : benches can't say "amen" / William Harrison Pipes -- Sources of racial socialization : theological orientation of African American churches and parents / Pamela P. Martin and Harriette Pipes McAdoo -- Death in the family : historical description and funerary display in African American families / LaTrese Evette Adkins -- African American demographic images / Harriette Pipes McAdoo -- African American female-headed households : some neglected dimensions / Niara Sudarkasa -- The significant other : type and mode of influence in the lives of Black families / Wilhelmina Manns -- Parenting of young children in Black families : a historical note / Marie Ferguson Peters -- The roles of African American fathers in the socialization of their children / Jonathan N. Livingston and John L. McAdoo -- Family first, then the world : the "know-it-all" aunt and her three nephews / Darlene Clark Hine -- Kin Keepers : breast cancer prevention for African American women / Karen Patricia Williams -- Family therapy : a help-seeking option among middle-class African Americans / Monica Mouton Sanders -- An overview of race and marital status / Robert Staples -- In search of love and commitment : dealing with the challenging odds of finding romance / Audrey B. Chapman -- Practices and attitudes toward contraception in the Black community / Algea Othella Hale -- A portrait of inequality / Marian Wright Edelman -- The impact of welfare reform on Black families / Robert B. Hill