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French Elle Thinks Michelle Obama Taught Black Women How To Dress—And Other MyBrownBaby Fresh Links

French Elle Thinks Michelle Obama Taught Black Women How To Dress—And Other MyBrownBaby Fresh Links

If French Elle fashion writer Nathalie Dolivo is to be believed—and she is not—African-Americans weren’t stylish until the Obama family came into office. ”For the first time, the chic has become a plausible option for a community so far pegged [only] to its street wear codes,” writes Dolivo in a post translated from the ...

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If Terrell Owens Thinks He’s “In Hell,” Imagine How His Kids Feel

If Terrell Owens Thinks He’s “In Hell,” Imagine How His Kids Feel

I’m no Terrell Owens fan and I have no interest in kicking a brother when he’s down, but the former NFL wide receiver known as T.O. isn’t winning any points after revealing in this month’s GQ cover story that after earning about $80 million during his career as a football ...

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Police Officers in School? A Recipe for Student Failure

Police Officers in School? A Recipe for Student Failure

By NICK CHILES Educators have known for a long time what kind of environment children need to learn: They need to feel safe and supported. Without these two elements, they will never perform at their best, no matter how much we yell at them about the difficulties they will soon ...

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Birthing While Black: This African American Mom’s Experience Was Anything But VIP

Birthing While Black: This African American Mom’s Experience Was Anything But VIP

There are a ton of things I’ll never forget about the first time I gave birth—showing up with a Donny Hathaway CD in one hand, a beautiful pink and white-striped “going home” dress and a white blanket handpicked special for my Mari in the other; being scared to death of ...

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MyBrownBaby Respect: Maya Angelou

MyBrownBaby Respect: Maya Angelou

There is, I hope, a thesis in my work: we may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody-two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than ...

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Postponing Motherhood: Is It Possible To Build A Family and A Career?

Postponing Motherhood: Is It Possible To Build A Family and A Career?

I was 27 when I married the man with whom I created two children—at the height of my career as a political reporter-turned-journalist and just as my first book made its way to store shelves. Two years into our marriage, we decided to have children. Each of them was made ...

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When Messy Moments Seem Like They’ll Never End

When Messy Moments Seem Like They’ll Never End

Nobody really prepares you for just how disgusting kids are. And how quickly you’ll fall right in line with the nasty. Like, why didn’t anyone tell me about that mom reflex that automatically catches vomit pouring from a baby’s mouth? Or that thing moms are inclined to do with their ...

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It Wasn’t Pretty, But Philly Mayor Nutter Was Speaking Truth about Bad Parents

It Wasn’t Pretty, But Philly Mayor Nutter Was Speaking Truth about Bad Parents

By NICK CHILES Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is the target of severe public and pundit criticism after the mayor let down his guard and allowed his true feelings to shine through following a fatal shooting in Philly that left three teens dead. While I agree that politicians must be held ...

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Curtis Stone Whips Up A Healthy One-Pot Meal For MyBrownBaby and Vick’s Nature Fusion

Curtis Stone Whips Up A Healthy One-Pot Meal For MyBrownBaby and Vick’s Nature Fusion

When Nick and I moved to Georgia from New Jersey almost seven years ago, we did so because we were looking for real connections with our children—wanted to be the kind of parents to them that we simply couldn’t while we were working full-time jobs in one state, living in ...

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Keke Palmer and Queen Latifah Make “Joyful Noise” With My Mari and Scholastic Kids Press

Keke Palmer and Queen Latifah Make “Joyful Noise” With My Mari and Scholastic Kids Press

My girlpie Mari spent the last year working as a reporter for the Scholastic Kids Press—a gig she thoroughly enjoyed. During her year-long assignment, she covered Michelle Obama at a Let’s Move rally, wrote about an Atlanta-based non-profit that helps new immigrants, interviewed the head of the CDC about last ...

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