Apology To My Brown Boy: Bassey Ikpi On Trayvon Martin, Mothers & Raising Black Boys (VIDEO)
Friends: MyBrownBaby contributor Bassey Ikpi penned this post and recorded the accompanying video, “Apology To My Brown Boy,” for her site, Bassey’s World. She very...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Birthdays Are the Worst Days: Bassey Ikpi On Turning 35
By BASSEY IKPI I love birthdays; mine especially. Every year for the last decade, I've thrown a party called a Basstravaganza! Yes, I am a...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Jesus, Boogie & the Bible: Wading in the Sticky Waters of Religion
By BASSEY IKPI Boogie loves Jesus. I'm not sure he's clear on who exactly Jesus is, but he's fully into him these days. He gets...
{Bringing Up Boogie} The Longing: A Single Mom Searches For Magic In the Darkness
By BASSEY IKPI So this sadness returns quietly. Always quietly. No great trumpeting or horn blast. No drum circle or full bodied gospel wail. No...
{Bringing Up Boogie} The Place From Which A Mother’s Love Flows
By Bassey Ikpi I love my son. That seems like a really base thing to say. Mothers are supposed to love their children. If you...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Grammar Police
By Bassey Ikpi Boogie: Oh, mommy! Today I saw some gooses… Me: Geese Boogie: What’s a geese? Me: Geese is plural for goose. Boogie: What’s...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Ready or Not? Deciding When and Where My Black Boy Goes to Kindergarten
By Bassey Ikpi This afternoon, my father handed me a brochure for St. Mathias Catholic School. It's that time. Boogie will turn 5 next November...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Holy Batman and the Big Boy Bed: My Baby Is Growing Up
Bassey and Baby Boogie Boogie turned four on November 30th. We had a superhero party for him because he's obsessed with Batman and Superman. Or...
{Bringing Up Boogie} There Is No Comfort In Silence
Editor’s note: If you follow poet and Bringing Up Boogie columnist Bassey Ikpi here on MyBrownBaby, you know that she is a tireless advocate for...
{Bringing Up Boogie} For Black Moms Whove Considered the Cuss Out When the Playground Banter Is Too Much
Editor's Note: I dug deep into the MyBrownBaby Crates for this piece, which I gathered together one Sunday afternoon while I was fussing around on...
