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May 14, 2012

Jada Pinkett-Smith Explains Willow Smith’s Independence, Quirkiness In Red Table Talk Series

During my Mother’s Day yesterday, I was taking a much-needed book writing break and tooling around on the internet when I stumbled on Jada Pinkett-Smith’s new Red Table Talk project, a series of intimate online conversations she’s having with her daughter, Willow Smith, and mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, on child-rearing, family, ...

May 11, 2012

I’ll Always Love My Mama: Missing My Mom On Mother’s Day (Redux)

Mother’s Day is a little tricky around here; it makes me incredibly happy to celebrate motherhood with my family and friends, but incredibly sad, too, because I’m reminded in a big way that my mom is gone from here. This will be the ninth Mother’s Day I’ll have without her, ...

May 9, 2012

Has Your Fifth Grader Ever Partied on the Stripper Bus? No? Time To Get On Your Game!

By NICK CHILES Fifth graders at an Atlanta elementary school got some grown-up lessons on their way back from a field trip last week when a bus company mistakenly picked them up in party buses—complete with stripper poles, fog machine, sound system and even a VIP section. The 130 students ...

May 7, 2012

Tweens, Dating and the Value of Girls and Women

By NADIRAH ANGAIL I have a brother-in-law (five of them actually, but let’s just focus on the one). He likes to joke about how my son, his handsome nephew, will have a girlfriend when he hits his preteen/teen years. Oh, but my daughter, his pretty little niece, will do no ...

May 3, 2012

My Kid Ran Her First 5K—And Inspired Her Mother To Get Moving

I’m going to go ahead and keep it 100: I got about as much athletic skill as Pookie in that rehab scene in New Jack City. You can stick me on a bike, drop me off on a track, glue a ball to my hand, and I wouldn’t know thing ...

May 2, 2012

Bucket List Baby Avery Dies in Texas: In Her Honor, Create A Bucket List With Your Kids

By NICK CHILES With the news that inspiring Baby Avery in Texas had passed away at five and a half months, bringing an end to the fanciful bucket list her parents had been keeping for her on the Avery Can blog that has drawn more than 3 million visitors in ...

April 26, 2012

Daddy Love: Everything I Know About Life, I Learned From My Awesome Black Father

By spelhouseLove Yesterday, my dad celebrated his seventy-second birthday. He’s an old man! In a world where so many fathers are absent, I have cherished memories of father-daughter activities going back over 30 years. When I was a baby, my father created a baby album, and wrote captions about my ...

April 25, 2012

The Hardest Job In the World Is Being A Mom—But It’s the Best (Summer Olympics 2012 VIDEO)

A friend of mine posted this video, a P&G salute to the mothers of Olympic athletes, on my personal Facebook page yesterday and seriously, it made me cry. Like, grab a tissue, snot cry. The emotions, the stories, the imagery are so incredibly beautiful, so universal, it’s hard not to ...

April 24, 2012

The Scariest Pro-Breastfeeding Video For Black Moms, Like, Ever

I mean, I’m trying really hard to focus on what’s important about this video. You score with me every time if you’re encouraging mothers to feed their newborns naturally through breastfeeding and if that message acknowledges the unique challenges African American mothers face when deciding whether to give their babies ...

April 12, 2012

Just Two Days After Easter, a Mother’s Baby Comes Back to Life in Argentina

By NICK CHILES Wait, a mother visited her baby in the morgue—and when she opened the casket the baby came alive? At first I thought this story was one of those cruel Internet hoaxes, like the Twitter death rumors or those ads for pills that can give you six-pack abs ...

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