Update: Oxygen Officially Cancels Shawty Lo’s Show; “Amen” to Power of the People
By NICK CHILES UPDATE: Oxygen officially announced it has cancelled Shawty Lo’s “All My Babies’ Mamas,” a reality show that was to chronicle the relationship...
Shocking Study: Overweight Teens Frequently Bullied by Their Parents
By NICK CHILES One of the most difficult jobs for a parent to negotiate is dealing with an overweight child. It’s hard to know what...
FINALLY: Judge Rules NYC’s Stop-and-Frisk Program Unconstitutional
By NICK CHILES New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk program was dealt a severe blow yesterday when a federal judge ruled that a portion of the...
“Django” Provided Many Lessons for Our Daughter—but “Roots” Did Too
By NICK CHILES We agonized for a couple of days whether we would take our 13-year-old daughter with us to see Django Unchained. We flipped...
Study: Arming Your Children With Race Pride Will Boost Their School Performance
By NICK CHILES They are among the most difficult questions a black parent has to face: How far do you go in preparing your children...
Shawty Lo Must Go: An Open Letter To Oxygen Media CEO Jason Klarman
Editor’s Note: MyBrownBaby Contributor Nick Chiles’ post, “If We Let Shawty Lo’s Show Get on the Air, We Will Have Failed Ourselves,” inspired an incredible...
No Fear: Walking Into New Year 2013 With Confidence And No Doubt
My mother believed with all her might that whatever one was doing at the stroke of midnight on the first day of the New Year,...
Coretta Scott King’s Words On the Violence Of Poverty Still Ring True Today
Marinate on Corretta Scott King’s words—words she bravely shared in a speech on Solidarity Day, the traditional “Juneteenth” celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation, just months...
If Newtown Shootings Showed Us Anything, It’s That Guns Kill People and It’s Time For Reform
There were news trucks outside my daughter’s elementary school on Friday. I’m guessing they wanted some local reaction to the shooting massacre of 26 people—including...
Erykah Badu’s Baby Girl Is Adorbs, Plus: the 12/12/12 Baby & Kiddie Race Talks
I know. Fridays at MyBrownBaby are usually reserved for something a little deeper than pictures of celebrity babies. But it’s late. I’ve been working all...
