Snoop Dogg Smokes Weed With His 18-Year-Old Son, Cordell Broadus: Way To Parent!
I think I might have been about 35 or so when I took my first drink in front of my dad. Maybe even older. I...
“Justifiable” Stop & Search Before Tyler Perry: One Man’s Harrowing Story Of Racial Profiling
Editor’s Note: After a lengthy investigation, Atlanta police announced last week that officers who stopped and interrogated entertainment mogul Tyler Perry in February were “justified”...
Katherine Jackson & the Jackson Family Values: A Billion Dollars Worth Of Mess
The fight over Michael Jackson’s children and estate has turned into a messy mess of an affair, with accusations of mama kidnapping, auntie slap boxing,...
How We Talked To Our Children About Osama Bin Laden’s Death
The news was shocking to Nick and I, but the conversation about it with our girls, ages 8 and 11, was easy enough. It went...
A Half-Breed Is a Dog: What Not To Call My Biracial Child
By Jennifer Johnson I strolled around the grocery store with my daughter’s car seat wedged in the shopping cart. Normally I’d carry her in my...
Yet Another Sign of the Coming Apocalypse: Abercrombie Kid’s Padded, Push-Up Bikini For 7-Year-Olds
Dear Abercrombie Kids, Padded, push-up bikinis for 7-year-olds? For real? I mean I’ve yet to see the second grader who has need to push up...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Down With The Fresh Beat Band and Other Kid Shows That Aren't Fresh
The Fresh Beat Band stars Twist, Kiki, Shout, and Marina, a.k.a. Boogie’s homies By BASSEY IKPIAfter last week's mommy melt down, I've decided to relax...
Candy Apples, 12-Inch Subs and Quarter Waters: 3rd Graders Lunches = One Step Closer To Type 2 Diabetes
By NICK CHILES I was pleased to see that the class trip was a big hit. My daughter Lila's third-grade class had hit the Salvador Dali...
Truth Don't Lie: Reconsider Celebrating Columbus Day
Why not call it Happy “I Got Lost and Killed A Bunch of People For No Good Reason and Opened Up the Atlantic Slave Trade”...
Burning Qur’ans, Zealots, and A Lesson On Tolerance: The Best Way to Honor the Victims of September 11th
I will tell them the story… about the day we fought with Mari for the remote control and insisted the grown-ups in the room watch...
