The Beautiful Revolutionary: Remembering Lena Horne
Lena Horne taught me how to write. It was back in 1997, when she was about to celebrate her 80th birthday, and the lovely Ms....
Word(ful) Wednesday: Look At Me…
I’m not really sure if pictures of me as a baby are limited because my parents weren’t big on taking them or because I’M ADOPTED...
Who Gonna Check Me, Boo? The Hazards of Putting 'Em In Their Place
She played rugby and was big as hell one of those corn-fed, meat-and-potato girls who looked like she spent her summer vacation stacking potato sacks...
MyBrownBaby on the Today show: Tips for Beating the Back-to-School Blues
One of my favorite writing gigs is my job as a columnist, contributing editor and Mom Squad member at Parenting magazine. The last office job...
Shameless MyBrownBaby Self-Promotion: "Never Make the Same Mistake Twice."
Yup, I wrote it. I figured I’d just put it on out there because I keep getting Facebook messages, emails, and phone calls from my...
My Time To Shine: What I Love Most About Me
My girl Akilah over at EXECUMAMA challenged me to write a letter to myself, listing all the reasons why I love me. My letter is...
Little Dolls: Tenderly Tending to Every Strand of Brown Girl Hair, With a Smile
It's extremely important to tell little Black girls that their natural hair is beautiful. This is why.
Shameless MyBrownBaby Self-Promotion: the iVillage Hook Up
I’ve loved iVillage for quite some time, particularly for their commitment to bringing quality online content to women. Of late, though, they’ve gone above and...
MyBrownBaby Redux: I’ll Always Love My Mama
By DENENE MILLNER I’m not sure what made me think about her today. I was in the grocery store, smelling the over-priced strawberries when my...
My Kid, The Next Last Comic Standing, Part II: The Knock Knock Sisters Take The Stage
I wrote back in January about my Lila and her fearlessness and how I had to take myself out of myself to allow her to...
