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...

– May 1, 2013

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...

– Apr 30, 2013

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....

– Apr 29, 2013

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...

– Apr 26, 2013

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...

– Apr 25, 2013

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...

– Apr 25, 2013

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...

– Apr 23, 2013

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...

– Apr 22, 2013

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...

– Apr 19, 2013

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...

– Apr 18, 2013
CLOSE
CLOSE