This Week in MBB
‘Soul Man’ Season Two Twitter Party: Join @MyBrownBaby & @BlackAndMarried Tonight!
I was a young entertainment reporter at the Daily News when I interviewed Cedric the Entertainer along with his comedic co-horts Bernie Mac, Steve Harvey and D. L. Hughley. They were taking a celebratory media lap for their uber-successful comedy tour, “The Kings of Comedy,” and celebrating the release of ...
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Self Defense For Girls: A Black Father Teaches His Daughter How To Fight Back
By SHAWN TAYLOR “How do you raise a child in safety in a world that is getting more violent by the day?” Some parents recently explored the question as their children played. Three mothers and a father were already engaged in (what seemed to me) an act of bullying hysteria ...
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Affirmative Action & the Supreme Court: Why Diversity Matters To Me and My Kids
I am an Affirmative Action baby. Long Island Newsday paid my college tuition, in part, because of the color of my skin. It was my chocolate hue, too, that opened wide the door for my first job out of college, as a reporter for The Associated Press. I tell you ...
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Trayvon Martin’s Parents are Still Co-Parenting—Through Death and Zimmerman’s Trial
By DEESHA PHILYAW A friend recently sent me an MSNBC article about Trayvon Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, and the trial of George Zimmerman which began last week. As the co-founder of co-parenting101.org and the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce ...
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What Love Is: Celebrating Black Fathers Who Do It Right, In Their Own Way (Redux)
I am told that I was left on the stoop of an orphanage, down in Lower Manhattan somewhere—a baby and a blanket on hard concrete. Still, I was wanted. My father, a son whose fractured relationship with his own dad could have forever shaped—and ruined—his parenting journey, knew this one ...
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