Searching for a TRUE Media Image of Black Moms and Kids
By DENENE MILLNER It was a playground ditty as melodic as Miss Mary Mack, but much more ugly menacing, even: If you're white, you're all...
Picky Eaters Plus My Dinner Table = A Recipe For Disaster
I. Can't. Stand. Them. Picky eaters, that is. They work my nerves with their empty forks and their I don't eat that declarations and their...
Black Moms and Ghetto Parents: They Are NOT One in the Same
Five years ago, Nick and I traded in our home in a lovely, comfortably upper middle class neighborhood in New Jersey for a house in...
Hennessy In My Starbucks Cup
Isn't this just the most delicious book title? I can't claim it; it belongs to my friend and fellow author Kimberly Seals Allers, who wrote...
Missing Michael Jackson
I didn’t expect my reaction—didn’t see the tears coming. But come, they did, when my girl Mitzi called the house and urged me to...
Where’s Tyra Banks When You Need Her?
So just the other day, I read THIS STORY about how model scouts in Brazil continue to search for and export to the runways tall,...
The Way We Move: Why I ♥ Being A Black Woman
A little over a month ago, the incredibly talented and gracious Lynya Floyd, an Essence magazine editor and friend, asked me to write a poetic...
Losing His Cool: Author Thomas Chatterton Williams Breaks Down Black Boys Vs. Hip Hop
Editor’s Note: I am so very pleased to introduce to MyBrownBaby Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of “Losing My Cool,” an incredibly poignant and telling memoir...
Something Stinks At Seattle's Thurgood Marshall Elementary School.
Sweet baby Jesus. It took me a minute to shake the tomfoolery that went down last month when a high school teacher one in the...
{Digging In the MBB Crates} Shining: What I Love About Me
Editor’s Note: My beautiful, inspirational, and ridiculously, deliciously funny friend Akilah over at EXECUMAMA is holding a “See Me Shine” contest; participants are writing...
