“The Help” Star Viola Davis Rocks Natural Hair In LA Times Mag And Talks Black Women In Film
Yes—that’s Academy Award nominee Viola Davis, star of the monster hit film, The Help, in all her stunning beauty on the cover of the Los...
#Flawless12 (Day 2): A Round Of Applause For the Stuff I Got Right
If I want to fail at something, all I have to do is make it a New Year’s resolution. For real: if I say I’m...
If Mitt Romney Doesn’t Care about the Poor, He Doesn’t Care about America’s Children
By NICK CHILES Every once in a while, politicians open their mouths and some truth comes out. That’s what happened to Mitt Romney yesterday during...
Susan G. Komen Apologizes For Pulling Planned Parenthood Funding—Reinstates Grants
UPDATE: The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has apologized to Planned Parenthood for cutting off almost $700,000 in grants meant to help low-income and...
The #Flawless12 Project (Day 1): Learning To Love What I Look Like In the Morning
Over the weekend, someone whom I respect said something quite profound: If we criticized friends like we criticize ourselves, we wouldn’t have any friends. And...
Women’s Professional Soccer Shuts Down—and Female Athletes, Young and Old, Are Heartbroken
By NICK CHILES Today is a sad day for the two little girl jocks in my house, and they don’t even know it yet. The...
Guess What? Playing With Your Kids Can Help Your Job Performance
By NICK CHILES Sometimes science can deliver tasty little morsels of good news. Here’s the latest one I heard: playing with your kids can actually...
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Don’t Let Their Kids Google Them—And For Good Reason
Let Google tell it and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are great parents or absolutely suck as a mom and dad to their six kids,...
Police Officers in School? A Recipe for Student Failure
By NICK CHILES Educators have known for a long time what kind of environment children need to learn: They need to feel safe and supported....
MyBrownBaby Respect: Maya Angelou
There is, I hope, a thesis in my work: we may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody-two-shoes, I know,...
