Vote To Get Derrick Barnes’ Ruby & The Booker Boys Series On Walmart Shelves

I’m making this short and sweet because really, what I’m going to ask you to do is quick and easy: MyBrownBaby’s own Derrick Barnes entered...

– Mar 21, 2012

New Study: Boys Consume More Sugar than Girls; White Kids Consume More than Blacks and Hispanics

By NICK CHILES When it comes to our children and sugar, a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics contains some revelations that...

– Mar 21, 2012

PS 22’s Cover Of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love Of All” Reminds Us To Put Children First

With all the heart-wrenching, mind-blowing crazy surrounding brown children this month—the uproar over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a teacher’s demand that her sole...

– Mar 20, 2012

Trayvon Martin’s Girlfriend Reveals He Ran From George Zimmerman Before His Death (UPDATE)

By NICK CHILES UPDATE: Today, as we learn from Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend that the teen ran from Neighborhood Watch captain George Zimmerman as he stalked...

– Mar 20, 2012

Down With Pink Slime Meat: Healthy Recipes I’m Cooking Up With Curtis Stone & Vicks Nature Fusion

So, with all the stories about the ammonia-treated pink slime hiding in fast food, our kids’ school lunches and even the ground beef and lunch...

– Mar 20, 2012

Beyonce’s First Concert After Blue Ivy’s Birth: Getting Back To Work After the Baby

Word on the streets of Atlantic City is that just four months after the birth of her baby girl Blue Ivy Carter, new mom Beyonce...

– Mar 19, 2012

Student Told To Read Langston Hughes Poem “Blacker”

A Virginia high school English teacher is under fire for repeatedly singling out her sole African American student—most recently demanding that the 9th grader read...

– Mar 19, 2012

911 Tapes In The Trayvon Martin Killing Reveal He Begged For Help; Zimmerman Shot Twice (UPDATE)

By NICK CHILES While the furor over the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin continues to build, the release of the 911 tapes surrounding the...

– Mar 19, 2012

Black Breastfeeding 360°: Celebrating A New Resource For African American Moms, Plus: A Nursing Bra Giveaway!

By KIMBERLY ALLERS I spend a lot of my time writing (loudly) about the problems I see in the world. Particularly, those affecting black mothers...

– Mar 16, 2012

Missing for 8 Years, A Boy Will Reunite in Texas With His Real Mother

By NICK CHILES There was joy in Texas earlier this week when a long-distraught mother, Auboni Champion-Morin, whose child has been missing since 2004, was...

– Mar 16, 2012
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