A Dad’s Plea: Let Our Little Girls Stay Little for As Long As We Can
By NICK CHILES Am I a prude if I think fourth- and fifth-grade girls shouldn’t be in makeup and high heels? Clearly, my thinking is...
New Study: Boys Consume More Sugar than Girls; White Kids Consume More than Blacks and Hispanics
By NICK CHILES When it comes to our children and sugar, a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics contains some revelations that...
Black Breastfeeding 360°: Celebrating A New Resource For African American Moms, Plus: A Nursing Bra Giveaway!
By KIMBERLY ALLERS I spend a lot of my time writing (loudly) about the problems I see in the world. Particularly, those affecting black mothers...
Missing for 8 Years, A Boy Will Reunite in Texas With His Real Mother
By NICK CHILES There was joy in Texas earlier this week when a long-distraught mother, Auboni Champion-Morin, whose child has been missing since 2004, was...
Dr. Ian Smith Dishes Healthy Living at Disney’s Dreamers Academy
By LORRAINE SANABRIA ROBERTSON Dr. Ian Smith, medical/diet expert on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club, author and founder of The 50 Million Pound Challenge, shared these...
Black Girl Hair: Are We Born With Short, Kinky Curls Until We Get A Weave?
By TRISSHA TAYLOR We live in a time that is constantly being referred to as the Information Age. Why? Because never before has information been so...
Bobbi Kristina On Oprah: Whitney Houston’s Spirit Tells Me To “Keep Going, Baby.”
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Whitney’s Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, her sister-in-law, Patricia Houston and her brother, Gary Houston, was many things: sincere, touching, eye-opening,...
A Fifth of High School Students Are Smokers? Blame Snooki and the Cast of “Jersey Shore”
By NICK CHILES About a fifth of high school students are smokers, and an even more alarming five percent of middle-schoolers—despite a deluge of information...
Whitney Houston Will: Bobbi Kristina Brown Is Sole Heir To Her Mom’s Fortune
Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of pop icon Whitney Houston and R&B bad boy Bobby Brown, is the sole heir to her mother’s estate. In her...
Black Parents: Help Tell OUR Breastfeeding Stories, Our Way
MyBrownBaby Moms, Dads and Friends, My friend, fellow blogger and black mom champion Kimberly Seals Allers of MochaManual.com needs our help. As part of her...
