Angry Mom Launches Positive Natural Hair Project
By AYA de LEON I do not have time for racism this week. I’m a working mom, with a high maintenance marriage, I’m writing a...
10 Great Ways To Get Your Child Reading Now
By DuEWA FRAZIER Literacy statistics for African American youth across the country are grim. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 53 percent of...
Mean Mugging Babies: How Disengaging With Your Child Leads To Emotional Harm
By DR. STACEY PATTON Want to stress out an infant? Have a mother look at her baby with a “still face,” no expression, interaction or...
{Faith & Motherhood} Ten Life Lessons For My Baby Girl
After months of worrying whether my baby girl would “stick” or not (because of previous miscarriages) and finally settling into what ended up being a...
White Mom, Black Daughter, Natural Hair: When Beautiful Means “Different.”
By Stacey Conner “Who does her hair?” she asks me gruffly. I look up from the table where I am trying to manage my four...
Locs of Love: Black Women Uplift Girl Barred From Tulsa School For Wearing Natural Hair
It was a simple call. Drexel University Professor Dr. Yaba Blay, an outspoken advocate who uses her platform to break down the binds of colorism...
[Dr. Ivor Is In] Digital Media Check-ups & The New Thing I’m Prescribing to My Patients This Year
It’s back to school time in our house so we are clearing out the summer-learning cobwebs and trying to get back into our school-time routine....
Sheryl Underwood Calls Afro Hair ‘Nasty,’ Wonders Why Mothers Save Baby’s First Clippings
Snapping on “The Talk” co-host Sheryl Underwood’s Dollar Store doll baby wigs or her remarkably uncanny resemblance to Arsenio Hall’s drag queen character in that...
Black Breastfeeding Week 2013: How Breastfeeding Made Me a Better Pediatrician
I breastfed my daughter and son for 19 and 24 months, respectively. Yes, they had teeth. They were talking and walking. In the end, it...
{Faith & Motherhood} A Letter To My Daughter: Lessons On Stepping Out On Faith
Somewhere inside every mom is this desire to share her heart with her children. Not just the basics on life and living but the real...
