April 27, 2010

MyBrownBaby Mom: Malaak Compton-Rock

Update: Congratulations to Ms. Understood, Joyce the Writer, and Malaka G., who will each receive an autographed copy of Malaak’s book. Thanks everyone for participating! If service to others is a gauge of a human’s heart, then Malaak Compton-Rock’s is as tall as Mt. Kilimanjaro and as wide as the ...

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March 25, 2010

You Saved Me A MyBrownBaby Giveaway

I was all of 23 and looked like I wasn't even yet of legal drinking age and I was a black woman, so it shouldn't have come as a surprise that when I'd show up to mayoral press conferences with my reporter's notepad and my mini tape recorder and my ...

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March 16, 2010

Princess Tiana Is Official Plus: The Princess and the Frog DVD Giveaway!

The Princess and the Frog DVD Giveaway is now over thank you to everyone who entered! And without further ado, the winners are: AdjoaChocolate Covered Day DreamsVerbenabeth Please email your addresses to me at denenemillner at gmail dot com, and I’ll pop them in the mail directly. Congrats! The Princess ...

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December 18, 2009

Get Your Spin On: XBox 360 DJ Hero Giveaway

Editor’s note: CONGRATULATIONS, BLAQBUTTERFLY you’re the winner of the DJ Hero Bundle Giveaway, courtesy of MyBrownBaby and Sprite! Thanks to everyone who participated; the contest is now closed. So I was in the Best Buy the other day, ticking off a few presents on my Christmas list and sweating the ...

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December 11, 2009

A MyBrownBaby Weekend: We're Going To See Disney's The Princess and the Frog. Plus: A Princess Tiana Goody Giveaway!

We’ve got our tickets four primo seats at our local movie theater, where Nick, Mari, Lila, and I will sit and watch history unfold as Disney’s first African American princess struts across the big screen and right into our hearts. Can you stand it?! Of course, it’s so very important ...

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December 1, 2009

The MyBrown Baby Happy For the Holidays HAND-CRAFTED JEWELRY GIVEAWAY!

You see, I'm a bare-face kinda girl and whatnot. I don't wake up in the morning and shower and put on my clothes and slather make-up on my face just because. In fact, it's just by small miracle that I even have on clean clothes when I'm stalking the aisles ...

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November 30, 2009

The MyBrown Baby Happy For the Holidays CHILDREN'S BOOK GIVEAWAY!

My daughter Mari was just a little peanut in my belly when I gave her her first gift copies of Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day, Faith Ringold's Tar Beach, and More More More Said the Baby, by Vera B. Williams. They were and still are! beautiful books with incredible ...

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October 2, 2009

On The MyBrownBaby Bookshelf: "Testing the Ice." Plus, a New MBB Contest!

Congratulations to the following MyBrownBaby readers winners of “Testing the Ice,” the beautiful new book by Sharon Robinson and illustrator Kadir Nelson. FROM RANDOM.ORGHere are your random numbers:13101417Timestamp: 2009-10-16 13:09:57 UTC Congratulations Terri Potter! You win the grand prize pack, which includes a copy of the book and a Kidorable ...

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May 11, 2009

What Would You Do For A Ticket To BlogHer 09?

Would you do it Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards style, and bathe in green goo? Maybe deliver dinner for four every night for a month to the front doorstep of Christie The ChatterBox Crowder (My Life – A Work in Progress)? A haiku, perhaps, for Lorraine of Ask Wifey? Well, those ...

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May 4, 2009

MyBrownBaby Cause: A Mother's Love Giveaway

To celebrate Mother's Day and say thank you for being one of their mom ambassadors, The March of Dimes sent me a beautiful necklace from Red Envelope one with a pendant rendered from a single, unending loop of sterling silver. The Red Envelope description says it's meant to be a ...

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