MyBrownBaby Is Rocking the Red Pump AND Encouraging Sexual Empowerment
So I blew a gasket when I read THIS STORY in the New York Times last week, about how the largely white staff of an...
Equal Pay For Moms NOW
She'd called me into her office, this lady boss of mine, newly charged with running what was then the 6th-largest newspaper in the country. Honestly,...
Moms Helping Moms
See, the thing is, she’s a baby been on this here Earth only four short years. And over the last few weeks, this pretty little...
Help MyBrownBaby Support the Greening Youth Foundation
It's no secret that I'm a total stan for my sister-in-law, Angelou, and not just because she's smart, accomplished, passionate and fly. I can't say...
MyBrownCauses: Help BabyMakin(g) Machine and Allstate Serve Others
I've loved her blog, like, forever and when Jennifer, a.k.a., Future Mama of the fertility and mommy-to-be blog, Baby Makin(g) Machine, hopped in the Chevy...
Get In2Books To Help Kids Fall In Love With Reading
When I was little, new books weren't easy to come by: My teachers never seemed to have time to take the class to the library,...
Spread Love: When African-American Children Put Their Minds To It, They CAN Change the World
Let me tell you something about my nephew, Miles: One of these days, he's going to be running things. I don't know if it's going...
MyBrownBaby Redux: Damn that Lil' Wayne–Now I Have To Live Without My Radio.
Black radio apparently is facing an uphill battle against a bill that would charge radio stations millions of dollars in fees to play music for...
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...
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...