Blue Ivy’s Hair: Seriously, Folk—Leave Beyonce and Jay-Z’s Child All the Way Alone Already
Four MyBrownBaby words about Blue Ivy’s hair: Leave. That. Baby. Alone. I say this because after more than a year of everyone begging to see...
As Our 10-Year-Old Cheers the End of State Tests, We Wish They Would Go Away
By NICK CHILES When our 10-year-old tumbled off the schoolbus today, the relief on her face tucked all up in that broad smile, it signaled...
As We Castigate Georgia’s Segregated Prom, America Needs to Stop the Hypocrisy
By NICK CHILES There were congratulations and smiles across the national media over the weekend as Wilcox County, Georgia, finally had its first-ever integrated prom....
Fresh Links: Ebony.com’s New Beauty Column For Brown Girls, Plus New Janelle Monet & An MBB Honor
Watch out there now: My super adorable, fly as pie, dopalicious cousin Melanie Yvette Martin, a beauty maven who has a delicious sense of style...
Fatherhood Fitness: How One Black Dad Took Control Of His Health—For His Daughter’s Sake
By SHAWN TAYLOR The invincibility of youth is amazing, but it fades: the reality of my body’s limits now hit in my knees, the small of...
Steubenville Coach Gets A Two-Year Contract Extension—and the Students Lose
Clearly, something ain’t right in the community well out in Steubenville, Ohio. It is there where teen girls get drugged. And raped while unconscious. And...
A MyBrownBaby Salute to Ebony Magazine for the Cover Story, ‘Saving Our Sons’
By NICK CHILES I have been writing about black males for most of the past two decades, but I’ve never been as excited about a...