Teacher Knowledge vs. Mommy Knowledge: A Child Chooses
When it comes to educating Black children, moms are the first teachers. But this is what happens when school teachers get involved.
Explaining Thanksgiving To Brown Babies: The Truth Doesn’t Have To Hurt
By K. J. EDWARDS Here we go again—it’s Thanksgiving. Time to break out the macaroni & cheese, collard greens, cranberry sauce, sweet potato pie and...
Is Natural Potty Training The New Throwback?
Natural potty training is not for the faint of heart—or, in this writer's mind, the kitchen sink.
My Biracial Son Needs to See Himself as Black and Proud
This mom of a biracial son knows the world will view him as African American. She wants him to see himself as a young black man too.
Dearest, ‘Detroit’ the Movie Ain’t For Us: Dodging Black Trauma
Here's what we don't need our kids to see: Detroit, a movie that fetishizes the brutalization of Black boys , sans context or care for the pain it causes.
Train Up A Child: Talking and Teaching Black Children Sexual Responsibility
If a lawsuit accusing Usher of infecting a partner with herpes should do anything, it's to convince us parents to have real talks with our kids about sex.
Daddy’s Girl, Still: He Never Came Home
Prolific politics and race writer Kirsten West Savali turns her pen toward an introspective, emotional look at life with her father—and without him.
He Never Came Home: I Was the Different One
Celebrating the release of "He Never Came Home," essays from daughters on life without their dads, with a piece by Nisa Rashid, asha bandele's baby.
You Did It Your Way: He Never Came Home
A daughter whose father died when she was a teen recounts the loving lessons she learned from him—an excerpt from the upcoming book, "He Never Came Home."
Here and There: He Never Came Home
A daughter remembers all the ways her father said he would show up, but didn't. A powerful essay from the upcoming book, "He Never Came Home."
