During Spring Break, Dad and Dog Yearn for the Return of the Ladyfolk
By NICK CHILES It’s Spring Break and the wife has taken the kids to visit grandpa. So it’s just me and the dog, together in...
Black Boys in Detroit School Stage Walk Out to Protest Their Bad Education
By NICK CHILES Something remarkable happened in Detroit this past week: dozens of students at the all-male Frederick Douglass Academy walked out of school together...
Reflecting On Trayvon Martin: NBC Anchors Lester Holt, Tamron Hall Tell Personal Stories About Race
I love Rock Center with Brian Williams for many reasons—the chief one being that he’s a truth-teller. I adore a reporter who digs down to...
George Zimmerman’s Black Friend Needs To Sit Down Now, and Other MyBrownBaby Fresh Links
This week on Ebony.com, the ever brilliant essayist Akiba Solomon pens an open letter to Joe Oliver, the African American friend of Trayvon Martin’s killer,...
Pregnant Love & Hip Hop stars Kimbella and Yandy Go Clubbing: Would You Belly Bounce In a Club?
I know, I know—what in the world is MyBrownBaby doing talking about the juicy, gossipy, champagne glass-tossing, knock-down-drag-out VH1 reality show, “Love & Hip Hop,”...
Video of George Zimmerman After Trayvon Shooting Casts Doubt on His Story
By NICK CHILES If George Zimmerman was brutally attacked by 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin, thrown to the ground, where he got a gash on the...
While “Hunger Games” Attracts Kids in Droves, “Bully” Fights Its R Rating
By NICK CHILES How’s this for irony: As “Hunger Games” breaks box office records attracting kids and teens to a PG-13 movie that features teens...
Apology To My Brown Boy: Bassey Ikpi On Trayvon Martin, Mothers & Raising Black Boys (VIDEO)
Friends: MyBrownBaby contributor Bassey Ikpi penned this post and recorded the accompanying video, “Apology To My Brown Boy,” for her site, Bassey’s World. She very...
Hustle Hard: “Octomom” Nadya Suleman Poses In Panties To Make The Rent
Giving a whole new meaning to the Ace Hood anthem, “Hustle Hard,” Nadya Suleman, a.k.a. Octomom, dropped her top and rocked flesh-toned panties in a...
Hunger Game Fans’ Racist Tweets: The Devaluation Of Black Children On Screen & In Real Life
With the vicious smear campaign launched against Trayvon Martin, the savage beating death of an Iraqi-American mother of five, killed in her own home by...
