From The Mouths of Babes: A Dream Becomes Reality
Every year, a local community-based organization here in our neck of the woods invites public school children to write essays based on a theme pulled...
Black Boy Swagger, Black Mom Fear
By DENENE MILLNER He’s 6 ft., 250-plus lbs quite imposing next to my 5′ 2 frame and can bench just shy of 300, which means...
CAN'T TOUCH THIS: We're Too Bougie For BET
By DENENE MILLNERSo I'm celebrating the New Year (read: recovering from my sister-in-law's smokin' hot/spirt-filled/sweat-your-hair-out New Year's Eve party) by lazing around and flipping through...
Yes, Mari and Lila—There Is A Santa Claus
This is how it’s gonna go down in the Millner/Chiles household from now on and forever more: Any kid who comes to my house talking...
Now That's Love Real Black Love
By DENENE MILLNERNo less than five of my girlfriends sent me links yesterday to a New York Times story boasting a headline that made us...
The Sun Will Surely Make You Black
By DENENE MILLNER This is what I did for fun when I was a kid: I read. I cornrowed my doll’s hair. I read some...
Yeah, I Ate The Cookies And?
By NICK CHILES Like many children of the 1970's, I had my visions of fatherhood formed not only by my own Dad but by the...
Beautiful Flowers
I can’t get out of my mind a post written earlier this week by my new friend over at A Thorn Among Roses. She and...
Starched Pillowcases and Chocolate Bon Bons
By DENENE MILLNER I'm not a slob. Well, not really. Okay, okay, already I might have some junkyard tendencies. Yes, my walk-in closet is so...
Faith In Our Fathers
By DENENE MILLNER On the mornings when my husband, Nick, walks the girls to the bus stop, my commute involves me leaning over the side...
