A LETTER FOR MY FATHER: A Daughter Reaches Out to the Dad Who Never Was
By KAREN MARIE MASON Dear Daddy, Mama told me your were dead. Except that was way before you actually died. But when I started acting...
A Fathers Painful Reality: It Takes a Village to Protect Our Daughters
By NICK CHILES Before I make my case, let me get something out of the way: I think we can say without much argument that...
Wish Upon a Star With Disney and Steve Harvey
“When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires will come to you. . . “ That’s the...
Teenage Wasteland: When Your Kid Gets the Pink Slip, We ALL Pay
By NICK CHILESLast week my son got laid off. His supervisor at the pool where he has been a lifeguard for the last year-and-a-half informed...
Playground Politics: A 20-Something Black Mom Negotiates Strollers and Stereotypes
By TARA PRINGLE JEFFERSON The judgmental stares start as soon as I pull up into the parking lot of the neighborhood playground. Among the rows...
Maybe They Thought the Black Would Run Off Into the Pool Water or Something…
When President Obama was elected into office, more than a few folks were shouting practically from the roof-tops that racism in America was dead. Um,...
Sadness For Michael: A Mom Cries For An Icon and Lost Black Boys Everywhere
By KIMBERLY SEALS ALLERS Yesterday, I cried watching the Michael Jackson memorial. I cried for a little black boy who felt the world didn't understand...
Little Dolls: Tenderly Tending to Every Strand of Brown Girl Hair, With a Smile
It's extremely important to tell little Black girls that their natural hair is beautiful. This is why.
CNN's Black In America 2: Finding Hope In The Streets Of Bushwick
It’s not that I didn’t appreciate CNN’s “Black in America” series when it first ran last year; I thought Soledad O’Brien did a fine job...
Let's Talk About the Joys and Struggles of Black Parenting!
You all know by now how passionate I am about having black parents participate in the national conversation on parenting; I simply don’t think that...
