Get Heart Smart: Show Your Support For African American Women’s Heart Health
The tragic death of my mother still sears—still haunts me. There are days when I just, like, need her. That has been especially true over...
You Don’t Want to Support “Red Tails?” Grow Up.
By Nick Chiles Let’s call it the Black Solidarity Backlash. In response to a wave of community exhortation and pleading for African Americans to go...
When It Comes to Teen Pregnancy and Sex, CDC Confirms: Teenagers are Morons
By NICK CHILES Having brought a boy all the way through teenhood—he is just months from his 20th birthday—I must say I wasn’t surprised to...
Taye Diggs and Colorism: Black Men Are Affected By Intra-race Prejudices, Too
Earlier this week, MyBrownBaby contributor Nick Chiles interviewed Taye Diggs about colorism, self-esteem and his new children’s book, “Chocolate Me!”—a post that received widespread coverage...
It Wasn’t Pretty, But Philly Mayor Nutter Was Speaking Truth about Bad Parents
By NICK CHILES Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is the target of severe public and pundit criticism after the mayor let down his guard and allowed...
Loud Applause for Jay-Z’s Plans to Banish B*tch After Blue Ivy’s Birth
UPDATE: Since the publishing of this post, MyBrownBaby has learned that Jay-Z most likely did not announce that he would no longer use the word...
We Have to Protect Our Children from Stress
BY NICK CHILES In these incredibly difficult times, we can easily find our families dealing with stressors that perhaps we didn’t have to confront a...
Willow Smith & The Stripper Pole: Kids Will Be Kids—Even Will And Jada’s
I mean, I get Willow Smith rocking the curly, hot pink-laced powdered wig that her musical mentor, Nicki Minaj, gave her after the two worked...
Slavery Math Problems in School? The Right Way to Do It
By NICK CHILES As black parents in Georgia continue to picket outside of a Gwinnett County school calling for the termination of third-grade teachers who...
Georgia’s Slavery Math Problems Show the Need for Parents to Stay Involved
By NICK CHILES The furor over the Gwinnett County, Georgia, school that used slavery and slave beatings as the elemental facts in third-grade math word...
