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...
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,...
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...
Beasts Of the Southern Wild’s Quvenzhane Wallis Covers Entertainment Weekly, Plus Fresh Links
Beasts of the Southern Wild breakout star Quvenzhane Wallis, who, at nine, became the youngest ever to be nominated for a “Best Actress” Academy Award, brings...
Tray Chaney’s ‘LIVE—World AIDS Day Anthem’ Is A Worthy Message (VIDEO)
We’ve made no secrets about our love for Tray Chaney, the actor who found fame as “Poot” in HBO’s edgy, award-winning series, The Wire, but...
Oh Oscar! ‘Beasts Of the Southern Wild’ Actress Quvenzhane Wallis, 9, Nominated
Joy for brown babies everywhere: Quvenzhane Wallis, the 9-year-old actress who made her film debut as a fiercely brave 6-year-old in the critically-acclaimed film (and...
Crushing On Girl Crush: An Unconventional Conversation On Beauty (VIDEO)
It’s the New Year—raise your hand if, at the stroke of midnight, you joined Weight Watchers, hired a personal trainer, poured all through those long-bookmarked...
Behind Jet Magazine’s Jordan Davis Cover: A Courageous Stand For Justice
I have been a reporter for more years than not and I’ve covered my fair share of death, heartache and controversy. It comes rather easy...
If We Let Shawty Lo’s Show Get on the Air, We Will Have Failed Ourselves
By NICK CHILES Surely there has to be a line out there somewhere—a level of degradation, of downright sewer-level grossness, that is so low even...
The Best Of MyBrownBaby, 2012 Edition: Stories That Moved the MBB Crowd
From controversial shootings (Trayvon Martin), celebrity deaths (Whitney Houston) and celebrity kid growing pains (Willow Smith) to political triumphs (President Barack Obama and Obamacare) and...
