Child Safety Sign 360 Degrees: A Great Way To Slow Down Your Neighborhood Speed Demon
Child Safety Sign 360 Degrees, a self-installable sign warning drivers from every direction to slow down and watch for children, sponsored this post. We spent...
Black Children and Education: Early Schooling, Family Support Is Key To Closing Gap, Says Steve Perry
By HEATHER HOPSON The Call “She’s in!” That’s what the director of a nationally recognized preschool told me over the telephone last week. Those two...
A Mother’s Love: A Love Letter To The Woman Who Gave Me Away {Diggin In the MBB Crates}
Editor’s Note: This will be the 10th Mother’s Day I’ll have without her, and though I’m sure it will nowhere near as painful as the...
Paying Homage To The OB-GYN Who Escorted Me Into Motherhood: Happy Mother’s Day!
I was a young reporter when I met her—flat stomach, full of energy, still eating popcorn and rainbow sherbert for dinner, still 120 lbs. soaking...
Where Did Our Love Go? Anthony Hamilton’s Wife Talks Motherhood & Marriage In New Book
Editor’s Note: Tarsha Hamilton is a woman who wears many hats. She is a singer/songwriter who has traveled the world sharing her gift. Married to...
Absentee Black Fathers: A Black Dad Says It’s Time More Brothers Take Care Of Their Children
By SHAWN TAYLOR When my daughter was born, I didn’t experience the love at first sight that so many parents talk about. In fact, I felt...
Eve’s Colorblind Babies: When Celebrity Gets In the Way Of Remembering Why Race Matters
Now I love Eve, the pitbull in a skirt-turned-“it” girl on the Hollywood scene, and her relationship with British entrepreneur and race car driver Maximillion...
Morehouse Students Charged With Raping Spelman Student: Melissa Harris-Perry Weighs In From Our Perspective
I was so moved by Melissa Harris-Perry‘s discussion yesterday about rape culture on college campuses. Yes, I know: it’s been a popular discussion of late,...
A village answers ‘What does it mean to raise a Black child in the 21st century?’
By SHAWN TAYLOR I’ll get right down to it. I asked several people the following question: What does it mean to raise a Black child in...
Teen Charged For School Science Project Gone Bad: Where’s the Justice In Zero-Tolerance?
This right here is why America’s public schools stay failing black children: A 16-year-old Florida student with a rep for being one of the smart,...
