Daddy Love: Why Fathers Get Cool Points (And Numbers) For Being Out With Their Kids In Public

By JAMAL FREDERICK When women get their first look at a man, what's the one thing guaranteed to grab hold of her interest and intrigue?...

– Apr 4, 2011

Yet Another Sign of the Coming Apocalypse: Abercrombie Kid’s Padded, Push-Up Bikini For 7-Year-Olds

Dear Abercrombie Kids, Padded, push-up bikinis for 7-year-olds? For real? I mean I’ve yet to see the second grader who has need to push up...

– Mar 29, 2011

{My Four Sons} How One Dedicated Father Made Reading Fundamental For His Son

By DERRICK BARNES For the most part, he’s everything I’m not. Well, not everything. I just wish I was born with his intensity and fire....

– Mar 21, 2011

Little Girl Loved: A Letter For the Cleveland, Texas Child From a Black Father Who Cares

By NICK CHILES Baby girl, I have some things that I need to say to you. It breaks my heart that these words are even...

– Mar 18, 2011

Gang Rape in Texas: When Will We Stop Sacrificing Girls In Defense of Black Boys?

She is 11. And 18 boys and men have been charged with gang raping her. You read that right. Eighteen. From ages 14 to 27....

– Mar 15, 2011

My Daughter and Mavis, the Brown One

By Katherine Malmo Lately my three-year-old brown baby has become aware of skin color. She points out all the black children at the pool and...

– Mar 7, 2011

Curse of the Tiger Other: How Amy Chua Fueled Stereotypes And Set Back Asian Moms

By J. Lisa Oyama She’s a nut job … and, she’s a genius, because she is making a lot more money off of this book...

– Mar 2, 2011

Parent Fail #2080: My Son Is Clueless About How Banks Work

By Nick Chiles There comes a time in every parent's life when we are faced with an undeniable fact: we have left holes. Somewhere in...

– Feb 26, 2011

Smart Heart Health: Black Women CAN Save Themselves From Needless Tragedy

None of us were ready for the parting not my Mari, who adored her Gamma and wanted at least another few days with the woman...

– Feb 23, 2011

Halle Berry’s “One Drop” Dilemma: This Mom Says She Won’t Make Her Biracial Baby Choose

Halle Berry thinks Biracial children need to choose whether they're Black or white. This mom thinks otherwise.

– Feb 21, 2011
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