{My Four Sons} Love, Respect and Nestle Snipes
By DERRICK BARNES Depending on the day of the week, the situation, or the reading on the crack me up! meter, I have a legendary...
Little Girl Loved: A Letter For the Cleveland, Texas Child From a Black Father Who Cares
By NICK CHILES Baby girl, I have some things that I need to say to you. It breaks my heart that these words are even...
Speak Up! Two Black Fathers Talk Love, Marriage & Manhood
Two of my favorite African American dad bloggers are lifting the voices of black fathers with new projects meant to show the hearts of men....
Introducing Big Black Daddy
By Derrick Barnes When I told a friend of mine about the title of my new MyBrownBaby column, she said it gave her images of...
{MyBrownBaby Redux} Yeah I Ate the Snickerdoodles. And?
[Editor’s Note: I was tooling around the MyBrownBaby treasure chest when I came across this post, written by the hubs two years ago. It STILL...
A Tribute to Two Classics: Sonny Rollins and My Dad
Sonny Rollins By NICK CHILES Recently I had the precious opportunity to pay tribute to two old black men, both fabulous in their own special...
{Digging In the MBB Crates} For My (Pro Union) Mom and Dad On Labor Day
For working hard And toiling long hours In hot factories On sore feet With tired hands But peaceful hearts For not enough pay And a...
Daddy’s Hands
His hands tell the story—those thick fingers and wrinkles and scars, and especially the calluses, speak to me. Remind. Of just how remarkable my Daddy...
Daddy's Dream Come True And Mine, Too
His mother died when he was just 10 years old and with her went my dad's dream of a solid education. See, my grandfather needed...
{Digging In the MBB Crates} Faith In Our Fathers
Editor’s Note: I noticed yesterday that I’m just a few posts away from having written or edited 400 stories for MyBrownBaby, and that got me...
