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Where Black Moms Matter

February 23, 2009

DADDY'S LITTLE JOCKS

By NICK CHILESThere were many joys I expected from having little girls, but I didn't expect this one. I knew that if I played my cards right, if I managed to show my little girls just a fraction of the love that I felt in my heart, I could potentially ...

January 20, 2009

Yes We Did: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

By NICK CHILES How do I even begin to understand the unfathomable? It is as if I have been told that gravity is a hoax, that the solar system is an optical illusion. James Baldwin pondered the evidence of things not seen; I ask if we have witnessed the impossible. ...

December 8, 2008

Yeah, I Ate The Cookies And?

By NICK CHILES Like many children of the 1970's, I had my visions of fatherhood formed not only by my own Dad but by the fatherly icons that marched across my television screen every week. Characters like James Evans on Good Times, Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch, Tom Bradford ...

September 14, 2008

She's The Boss: A Dad Gets Punked By His 4-Year-Old

By NICK CHILES As black men, we spend a significant part of our early days making testosterone-infused snap judgments about how we think we'd fare in physical encounters with other brothers. I think I could take himLook at that little guy over there I know I could take himWhoa, that's ...