Merriam Webster defines a “father” as a male parent or a man who begets a child.
For this Father’s Day, BET.com wants to share the stories of three different father relationships, in their own words, to provide a more expanded view of modern-day Black June 2, 2019, Tony Brown, 49, of Atlanta, Georgia, publicly acknowledged his transgender daughter via a Facebook post.
As he and his wife, Lesley, informed family and friends of the legal name change of their oldest to Ivana Fischer, Brown, the father of three also declared that while their journey had not been easy, “when all is said and done, this is our child.
In his own words, here is Tony Brown’s explanation of what it takes to be a Black father today.
As a father, as a Black father, nothing has changed about how much I love all of my children.
