Tackling Infant Mortality Rates—Without Stereotyping Black Mothers
So I wake up Saturday morning to this New York Times piece, Tackling Infant Mortality Rates Among Blacks, and by story’s end, I’m heated. I...
MyBrownBaby Fresh: What We’re Reading, Doing, Watching and Listening To This Week
I started out the week having a terrible, horrible, no good, bad day (relationship building and maintenance with businesses that refuse to recognize your worth...
A Mother’s Love: A Love Letter To The Woman Who Gave Me Away
I was 12 years old when I found my adoption papers tucked in a metal box under my parents’ bed. Too young to process alone...
My Super Weird Pregnancy Craving
So I was doing laundry yesterday and Mari came in and did what she’s been doing since she was but a little pea in my...
On the Parenting Post: I'm A Crap Mom
That’s Me, Denene Crap Mom Extraordinaire We are not rich by any stretch, but the babies have all that they need and all that they...
{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...
Black Moms and Ghetto Parents: They Are NOT One in the Same
Five years ago, Nick and I traded in our home in a lovely, comfortably upper middle class neighborhood in New Jersey for a house in...
