“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”...
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} My Boy and the White Barbie Cozying Up Under the Christmas Tree
By BASSEY IKPI Boogie is in that can you buy me that? stage of life. I dread commercials with anything that races, flies, explodes or...
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...
Watermelon, The “N” Word and the Hearts of (Wo)Men
It was fun, I guess. We did all kinds of art projects together and cool stuff like learning how to sew and make sun tea...
We Need More Black Children's Books On Borders's Bookshelves NOW.
My neighborhood Borders was running a children's book drive for a local hospital and since Denene loves the children and books, I offered to purchase...
Picky Eaters Plus My Dinner Table = A Recipe For Disaster
I. Can't. Stand. Them. Picky eaters, that is. They work my nerves with their empty forks and their I don't eat that declarations and their...
Salma Hayek, Kim Kardashian and "Creepy" Breastfeeding
I mean seriously: What gets people so worked up about breastfeeding? The baby is hungry, nature put milk in your boob to satisfy that hunger...
Something Stinks At Seattle's Thurgood Marshall Elementary School.
Sweet baby Jesus. It took me a minute to shake the tomfoolery that went down last month when a high school teacher one in the...
