MyBrownBaby Giveaway: Win a Ticket To Blogalicious 2010 in South Beach!
EDITOR’S NOTE: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to Rose’s Daughter AND Jewelry Rockstar, each who won full conference passes to Blogalicious 2010, courtesy of...
Everything You Need to Know about Life, You Can Learn From a Preschooler
By JEANINE DeHONEY Ah preschoolers those wonderful, adorable, quirky, miniature human beings. They have such a knack for finding meaning in the simple, natural pleasures...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Crocs, Muffets, and Parent Spies To the Left
By BASSEY IKPI E is a very friendly little boy and I know that most mothers are jumpier than I am about whom their kid...
Raven Symone on Disney's Tinkerbell, Sage Bill Cosby Advice, and Ducking TMZ
Fresh off her star turn as the voice of Tinkerbell's super cutie, chocolate BFF Iridessa in the newly-released Disney DVD Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy...
A Tribute to Two Classics: Sonny Rollins and My Dad
Sonny Rollins By NICK CHILES Recently I had the precious opportunity to pay tribute to two old black men, both fabulous in their own special...
Boris Kodjoe And MyBrownBaby, Sitting In a Tree…
Oh, alright so I won’t be K-I-S-S-I-N-G that gorgeous hunk of a man Boris Kodjoe any time soon. BUT come 8 p.m. tonight, I will...
Standing "O" for the Black Dad Who Threatened His Daughter's Bullies!
Yes, I know I've warned before that we moms should reconsider just when, where, and how we should use our Wu Tang Clan-styled Samurai word...
{Bringing Up Boogie} I Don't Bake and My Kid's a Neat Freak: We Were Made For Each Other
By BASSEY IKPI Last week, while in the car with Boogie, I was fiddling with the radio, trying to find a song that I wouldn't...
That New, New: Willow Smith, The Hair Whip, and Coloring Outside the Lines
About this, I’m really clear: If Lila, my littlest one, were left to her own devices (and her parents had more time, cash, connections and...
Wordful Wednesday: Just Me and My Beautiful Girls
Just the other day, my friend and MyBrownBaby contributing writer Bassey Ikpi wrote a beautiful piece on her Bassey’s World site, about her memories of...
Beyond the Parking Lot Mafia: How I Get What I Want and My Children Need From My Kids' Teachers
As we head back to school, my kids' new teachers never really see me coming. That is until they make what they think is supposed...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Angels In the Delivery Room: In Memory of My Friend, Nurse Valada
Vintage Boogie When I was pregnant with Boogie, I had a difficult time getting used to the idea of pregnancy and negotiating the new changes...
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...
MyBrownCauses: Every Penny Counts In The Ronald McDonald House Charities Day of Change
It was Christmas time and we wanted to teach our kids the beauty and value of giving freely and so my sister-in-law and I, then...
WANTED: A Wife
Forty-one-year-old woman with husband and three kids seeks consort/right-hand lady/stand-in to cut a sistah some slack/work out some things around the house when she...
