10-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth, Becoming World’s Youngest Mother

Know that when you read the next sentence, nothing is wrong with your eyes and there is no typo here. A 10-year-old Colombian girl gave...

– Apr 10, 2012

CNN Study Showing Black Kids Have Racial Bias is Merely a Snapshot of American Life

By NICK CHILES A CNN study on race relations has yielded a news tidbit that is likely to spread across the media like a forest...

– Apr 9, 2012

MyBrownBaby Respect: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Today is the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on that Memphis balcony. He is gone, but his genius lives...

– Apr 4, 2012

As Former Bengals Cheerleader Sarah Jones Denies Sex Abuse Charges, Should Parents Be Worried?

By NICK CHILES Former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader and high school teacher Sarah Jones, 26, pleaded not guilty Monday after being accused of having sex with...

– Apr 4, 2012

Talking To Black Boys About Trayvon Martin, Hoodies and Black Mom Fears

By BASSEY IKPI As I drove my 5-year-old to school, I could tell something was wrong. It was out-of-uniform day at his school, and as...

– Apr 4, 2012

Black Boys in Detroit School Stage Walk Out to Protest Their Bad Education

By NICK CHILES Something remarkable happened in Detroit this past week: dozens of students at the all-male Frederick Douglass Academy walked out of school together...

– Apr 2, 2012

Reflecting On Trayvon Martin: NBC Anchors Lester Holt, Tamron Hall Tell Personal Stories About Race

I love Rock Center with Brian Williams for many reasons—the chief one being that he’s a truth-teller. I adore a reporter who digs down to...

– Mar 31, 2012

George Zimmerman’s Black Friend Needs To Sit Down Now, and Other MyBrownBaby Fresh Links

This week on Ebony.com, the ever brilliant essayist Akiba Solomon pens an open letter to Joe Oliver, the African American friend of Trayvon Martin’s killer,...

– Mar 30, 2012

Video of George Zimmerman After Trayvon Shooting Casts Doubt on His Story

By NICK CHILES If George Zimmerman was brutally attacked by 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin, thrown to the ground, where he got a gash on the...

– Mar 29, 2012

While “Hunger Games” Attracts Kids in Droves, “Bully” Fights Its R Rating

By NICK CHILES How’s this for irony: As “Hunger Games” breaks box office records attracting kids and teens to a PG-13 movie that features teens...

– Mar 28, 2012
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