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May 10, 2013

Paying Homage To The OB-GYN Who Escorted Me Into Motherhood: Happy Mother’s Day!

I was a young reporter when I met her—flat stomach, full of energy, still eating popcorn and rainbow sherbert for dinner, still 120 lbs. soaking wet. Despite having awesome health insurance, I’d gone years without seeing a doctor of any kind. When you’re in your 20s, laying on a table ...

May 9, 2013

Where Did Our Love Go? Anthony Hamilton’s Wife Talks Motherhood & Marriage In New Book

Editor’s Note: Tarsha Hamilton is a woman who wears many hats. She is a singer/songwriter who has traveled the world sharing her gift. Married to R&B superstar Anthony Hamilton, Tarsha shares her experience as a wife and mother in the new anthology Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships ...

May 7, 2013

Eve’s Colorblind Babies: When Celebrity Gets In the Way Of Remembering Why Race Matters

Now I love Eve, the pitbull in a skirt-turned-“it” girl on the Hollywood scene, and her relationship with British entrepreneur and race car driver Maximillion Cooper is beautiful. But her thoughts about biracial babies and especially her childrearing philosophy has me cocking an eyebrow: Eve says she plans to raise ...

May 1, 2013

Blue Ivy’s Hair: Seriously, Folk—Leave Beyonce and Jay-Z’s Child All the Way Alone Already

Four MyBrownBaby words about Blue Ivy’s hair: Leave. That. Baby. Alone. I say this because after more than a year of everyone begging to see Beyonce and Jay-Z’s daughter’s face, they finally give us a full-on look at her smoochy cheeks and those big ol’ doe eyes and the most ...

April 22, 2013

Easing Mommy Guilt: 20 Quick Ways To Connect With Your Baby When Time Is Short

Even to this day, more than a decade later, I remember what it felt like—that gnawing, desperately unsettled, perpetually unsatisfied, I’m-totally-failing-my-baby feeling I had when I was juggling a full-time job, a burgeoning book career, a young marriage and new motherhood, all at the same time. I was a features ...

April 18, 2013

A MyBrownBaby Salute to Ebony Magazine for the Cover Story, ‘Saving Our Sons’

By NICK CHILES I have been writing about black males for most of the past two decades, but I’ve never been as excited about a journalistic endeavor as my cover story in the latest issue of Ebony magazine, entitled “Saving Our Sons.” As an education reporter in New York City ...

April 12, 2013

On the MyBrownBaby Stoop: ReShonda Tate Billingsley Spills On Her New Book, “The Motherhood Diaries”

With gems like, Let the Church Say Amen and The Pastor’s Wife among her 26 (!) books, national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley knows writing. But the mom of three also know motherhood—so much so that for years, she’s shared charming anecdotes and personal stories of her children on social media, cracking ...

April 12, 2013

The Motherhood Diaries: A Humorous Look At Raising Kids In the New Millenium

By ReSHONDA TATE BILLINGSLEY Dear Diary, My mother came to visit this week. She fed my six-month-old collard greens and cornbread. She won’t listen to anything I tell her about additives, insecticides, and new studies. Her response every time I complain is, “I don’t need a damn book to tell ...

April 10, 2013

[Father/Hood] Fairy Tales For Black Girls: Making Up Stories Of Our Own For Our Daughters

By SHAWN TAYLOR Now that my daughter remembers things with remarkable recall, is capable of critical thought, has a keen eye for the differences between people and the ability to provide and understand context, I have to admit: parenting feels like a kind of ridiculous warfare. It’s you (and everyone ...

April 10, 2013

Gratitude: What I Learned About Motherhood and Life While On Public Assistance

Before I became a single mom, I cut up all my credit cards except one. Thanks to God and the Queen (whose face is printed on the Cayman Islands dollars I earned overseas), I could afford to get out of debt and live on one of the world’s most beautiful ...