Be Awesome: Vote MyBrownBaby The Best Parenting Blog In the Black Weblog Awards
Yesterday, these words from MyBrownBaby reader Brock Qualls in response to a feature I wrote about Kirk Franklin and Mari's BFF, Mekdes, made me teary:...
From the Mouths Of Babes: Our 12-Year-Old Writer Helps Parents Get A Grip On Bullying
Editor’s Note: Today’s post marks the debut of Janelle Herbert, a New York-based writing hopeful who reached out to me to ask if I could...
Do You Think What You Do As A Mom Is Worth Only $61,500? No? Didn’t Think So.
So, Insure.com, an online resource for insurance shopping, just released its annual Mother's Day Index, a study that uses Bureau of Labor Statistics data to...
How We Talked To Our Children About Osama Bin Laden’s Death
The news was shocking to Nick and I, but the conversation about it with our girls, ages 8 and 11, was easy enough. It went...
Kemba Walker And the Get Over Syndrome
By NICK CHILES I can remember the moment so clearly. I was watching the NCAA tournament, witnessing the amazing Kemba Walker strut, stutter-step and cross-over his way...
Fighting Words: On the N Word & My Children’s Response To It
I told you this would happen—said it was as certain as wet rain, as sure as the yellow in the sun. A white child called...
Honey Do: The Mommy Guilt Remedy
Welcome to episode six of Honey Do: the Web Series, the whip-smart, funny, straight, no-chaser set of videos meant to help our men get a little...
J. Crew Can Keep Its Pink Toenail Polish: I Want My Boy To Be A Boy
By KIA MORGAN SMITH Just for farts and giggles, I sat my son Jo-Jo down, grabbed his little foot, took his big toe into my...
A Half-Breed Is a Dog: What Not To Call My Biracial Child
By Jennifer Johnson I strolled around the grocery store with my daughter’s car seat wedged in the shopping cart. Normally I’d carry her in my...
Update On Little Girl Loved: The 11-Year-Old Gang Rape Survivor In Cleveland, Texas
A few weeks ago, MyBrownBaby contributor Nick Chiles wrote a beautiful, heartfelt “love” letter to the 11-year-old girl who was gang raped in Cleveland, Texas...
