Bobby Brown Wasn’t Supposed to Have Contact with Bobbi Kristina: Lawyer
By NICK CHILES Whitney Houston’s family attorney said that Bobby Brown violated a prior agreement by trying to speak to his and Whitney’s daughter, Bobbi...
White Teacher Should Not Be Suspended for Using the N-Word
By NICK CHILES In Chicago, where a white teacher got suspended because he tried to have a classroom discussion about the n-word, it appears that...
DMX’s Ex Says He Owes $1 Million In Child Support
Jesus be a fence, a passport and a good-paying European concert gig, because rapper DMX is being sued for $1 million in child support. By...
All Up In Our Uteruses: Rick Santorum Says No To Prenatal Testing, Virginia Says Yes To Vaginal Probes
Please believe me, I never imagined that anyone would ever have to write a post explaining why prenatal testing is important and necessary, but here...
If These Marriage Trends Continue, the Word “Father” Will Soon Be Obsolete
By NICK CHILES As a married man with three children, I was extremely disturbed by a story I saw over the weekend in the New...
Beyonce Won’t Be Getting Blue Ivy Carter Baby Advice From Solange—And Other MyBrownBaby Fresh Links
Beyonce and Jay-Z’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, is getting a lot of love from her aunt, Solange Knowles. But Solange, Beyonce’s younger sister, who has a 7-year-old son of...
As Whitney Houston’s Funeral Nears, We Celebrate Her Life—And Remember That She Was Us
When I was 16, Whitney Houston was everything. I was a nerd—wholesome, shy, black. Never kissed. And in love with this boy I’d worshipped from...
Too Short Tosses Blame Over “Fatherly Advice” At XXL Editors
Rapper Too Short, who came under a hip hop feminist firestorm for giving explicit instructions to middle school boys on how to finger rape and...
A Middle Schooler Strip Searched in Front of Classmates? This Needs to Stop
By NICK CHILES The family of a middle school student in Georgia has filed a lawsuit against the school district because administrators, suspecting that the...
Chris Brown’s Grammy Twitter Rant Shows He Still Doesn’t Get It.
After winning a 2012 Grammy Award for Best R&B album and making a triumphant return to the Grammy stage three years after the brutal 2009...