CNN's Black In America 2: Finding Hope In The Streets Of Bushwick

It’s not that I didn’t appreciate CNN’s “Black in America” series when it first ran last year; I thought Soledad O’Brien did a fine job...

– Jun 25, 2009

Happily Ever After: A Positive Image of Black Marriage

I’m such a fan of Lamar and Ronnie Tyler, the power couple behind one of my favorite websites, BlackandMarriedWithKids. Every day of the week, the...

– Jun 16, 2009

A MyBrownBaby Weekend: Eddie Murphy's New Kid Flick, "Imagine That."

Man, I used to love me some Eddie Murphy back in the day played my cassette of his first stand-up routine so many times, the...

– Jun 12, 2009

Let's Talk About the Joys and Struggles of Black Parenting!

You all know by now how passionate I am about having black parents participate in the national conversation on parenting; I simply don’t think that...

– Jun 5, 2009

Tell Your Brown Baby It's Quite Okay to Be Brilliant… and Fabulous

My Mari’s always been the quiet one. Not the shy one, really. Just quiet. The kind of kid who’ll sit back, survey the land, and...

– Jun 2, 2009

MyBrownBaby Presents asha bandele: She's Something Like Beautiful

I've met author asha bandele only once in person, yet we’ve gotten on the phone a million times and talked for hours about everything our...

– May 26, 2009

Just Call Her Little Nikki Giovanni: My Brown Baby Tries Her Hand At Poetry

Have mercy, school is over and there’s an avalanche of graded papers, old school supplies, and random art/science/social studies projects cluttering literally every surface of...

– May 25, 2009

Make a Splash and Save a Life: Teach Our Babies How to Swim

I'll never forget the first day I took my baby girl, Mari, to see the ocean. She was so tiny couldn't walk yet without my...

– May 22, 2009

Disney's First African American Princess Is Frame-Ready!

I wrote back in February about how it’s going to be a whole new world at Disney with the debut of Princes Tiana, Disney's first...

– May 21, 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...

– May 11, 2009
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