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...
Obama Family Tattoo: President Tells Sasha & Malia If They Get Inked, He and Michelle Will, Too
My President and First Lady are so gangsta, particularly when it comes to Sasha and Malia and any ideas the First Daughters may have had about...
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...
Easing Mommy Guilt: 20 Quick Ways To Connect With Your Baby When Time Is Short
Even to this day, more than a decade later, I remember what it felt like—that gnawing, desperately unsettled, perpetually unsatisfied, I’m-totally-failing-my-baby feeling I had when...
Fresh Links: Breastfeeding Support For Black Moms, Plus Honest Toddler & New De La Soul Music
Just a few months after the Centers For Disease Control reported a rise in both the numbers of African American mothers breastfeeding and the length...
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...
