{My Four Sons} The Sorrowful Last Days of “Who Would Win In A Fight”
By DERRICK BARNES I think, on average, that ten is the cut-off age. It’s around that time that boys begin to almost completely lose the...
{My Four Sons} A Prayer For Nnamdi: A Black Father Welcomes His Newest Son
By DERRICK BARNES In 2005, immediately after my family and I were fortunate enough to survive and escape the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in...
{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...
{My Four Sons} How One Dedicated Father Made Reading Fundamental For His Son
By DERRICK BARNES For the most part, he’s everything I’m not. Well, not everything. I just wish I was born with his intensity and fire....
{Big Black Daddy} Sucka For Love
By Derrick Barnes It starts early. Well, at least for the eldest Barnes brother, Ezra, aka Pretty Boy McCoy, or aka his new and most fitting...
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...
On Father’s Day, Remember That Enough Is Always Enough, My Brotha
By DERRICK BARNES There’s one major concern and reoccurring worry that I have as a father, and that’s that I’m going to forget to teach...
