I’ll Always Love My Mama: Missing My Mom On Mother’s Day (Redux)
Mother’s Day is a little tricky around here; it makes me incredibly happy to celebrate motherhood with my family and friends, but incredibly sad, too,...
Meet Joyce Banda, Malawi’s First Female President
By NICK CHILES If you don’t know who Joyce Banda is, keep on reading. She has just been installed as the first woman president of...
Tough Love On Social Media: ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s Old School Parenting in the New Millennium
By ReShonda Tate Billingsley I’m a good parent. Not a great parent. Not a perfect parent, but I do my best to train up my...
President Obama On Gay Marriage: Sasha and Malia Lead the Way
Even as North Carolina takes its balls to the wall stance against gay marriage by barring it in its state constitution, even as the conservative...
WTF: Cop Kicks Pregnant Mom-To-Be In Stomach—Department Says He’s Justified
Just writing this sentence hurts me and pisses me off to the core: An Atlanta-area cop is under criminal investigation for dropkicking a pregnant woman...
Has Your Fifth Grader Ever Partied on the Stripper Bus? No? Time To Get On Your Game!
By NICK CHILES Fifth graders at an Atlanta elementary school got some grown-up lessons on their way back from a field trip last week when...
Stand Your Ground, Domestic Violence and Black Ballerinas: Melissa Harris-Perry Talks Black Women
Have I told you lately how much I super heart Melissa Harris-Perry? Her self-titled show on MSNBC gives me life—not just because the Tulane professor...
At Town Hall, Mitt Romney Showed His True Character: Weak and Cowardly—A Parent’s Nightmare
By NICK CHILES Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney faced a major character test on Monday—and he failed about as miserably as the wannabe leader of...
We Love Jennifer Lopez and Chris Rock, But We May Be Skipping “What To Expect When You’re Expecting: The Movie”
So Jennifer Lopez is on the cover of Redbook with the female cast of the new movie, What To Expect When You’re Expecting, offering up...
Move Into a Separate Bedroom, Make Your Marriage Better?
By NICK CHILES In numbers that appear to be steadily increasing, more American couples are deciding to sleep in separate bedrooms—claiming that this sleeping separation...