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April 26, 2013

Fresh Links: Ebony.com’s New Beauty Column For Brown Girls, Plus New Janelle Monet & An MBB Honor

Watch out there now: My super adorable, fly as pie, dopalicious cousin Melanie Yvette Martin, a beauty maven who has a delicious sense of style and an addiction to pretty little things for pretty brown girls, has a new beauty column over at Ebony.com! But in typical Millner/Martin family fashion, ...

April 19, 2013

Fresh Links: Breastfeeding Support For Black Moms, Plus Honest Toddler & New De La Soul Music

Just a few months after the Centers For Disease Control reported a rise in both the numbers of African American mothers breastfeeding and the length in which we’re forgoing formula for the breast, the Department of Health and Human Services is putting its muscle behind helping to improve those numbers ...

April 1, 2013

Encouraging Literacy For Black Children: Take the 20-4-30 Reading Challenge For Your Child

One of the best baby shower presents I got for my first child was a lovely set of board books that included stories with characters that look like my girlpies, including The Snowy Day and Whistle For Willie, both by Ezra Jack Keats and More, More, More, Said the Baby, by ...

March 15, 2013

A Black Marriage Week Treat From Tray Chaney, Plus Michelle Obama In Vogue and Justin T. On Fallon

Sunday marks the kick-off day for the 10th Annual Black Marriage Week, a celebration sponsored by Marriage, Inc. of Kankakee County, along with Wedded Bliss Foundation, Inc., that joins supporters in hundreds of cities around the country to highlight the benefits of married life. To celebrate, actor, rapper and friend ...

March 5, 2013

Michelle Obama Hits Her Dougie With MyBrownBaby In Her “Let’s Move” Google+ Hangout (Video)

Michelle Obama celebrated the third anniversary of her landmark anti-child obesity program, “Let’s Move,” by participating in her first Google+ Hangout chat—and MyBrownBaby was right there with her, talking creative ways to get our kids moving, remembering childhood games like Double Dutch and Skellies, and even helping the First Lady ...

March 1, 2013

Black Girls Have Quvenzhane’s Back, Plus: Michelle Obama’s Mom Dancing, Daddy’s Money Sneaks & More

I promise you this: the backlash The Onion faced after calling Best Actress Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis the “c” word was swift and severe, but it was black voices—those of us women—that led the charge. I saw some really beautiful posts written in support of our favorite 9-year-old big screen star ...

February 21, 2013

An Easy Chicken Corn Chowder Recipe That’ll Make You All Warm and Fuzzy Inside

It’s still wicked cold here in Hotlanta (I know—nobody from Atlanta says “Hotlanta” anymore, but I’m from New York, so…) and when there’s a chill, our family wants nothing more than comfort—I’m talking fluffy slippers, warm blankets, heat turned up high and something warm on our plates. Thing is, that ...

February 12, 2013

Ava Duvernay’s ‘The Door’: A Miu Miu Short Film That Displays Black Women In All Our Beauty

I make no claims to being a fashionista. I mean, I clean up nice and after years of fending off attacks against my black girl beauty, I’m comfortable enough with my style to get glam on my own terms. But I quit looking for myself on runways and in the ...

February 8, 2013

Beyonce Celebrates the Black Women Of the Superbowl—And Other MyBrownBaby Fresh Links

So Jennifer Borget, the blogger behind Baby Making Machine and an occasional contributor to MyBrownBaby, wrote a perfectly delightful post on BabyCenter earlier this week, explaining why she was absolutely pumped that black women, including Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce, ran the world on Superbowl Sunday, using their talent ...

January 30, 2013

Kid President: The Best, Most Inspirational Pep Talk EVER, From A Beautiful Black Boy

Honest to goodness, if you watch nothing else today, you MUST press play on this video by Robbie Novak, a.k.a., Kid President, the 9-year-old, tux-wearing hype machine, who is using his awesome to encourage the world to be, well… awesome. In his three-and-a-half-minute pep talk, little Robbie quotes Robert Frost ...