On the MyBrownBaby Table: Green Bean Arugula Salad
By SHELLEY CHAPMAN Picture this: Thirty minutes to make dinner, starving and demanding mouths to feed, a need to integrate greens in a delicious way,...
Celebrating Our Beautiful Earth
I was going to have Mari write a “Earth” poem like the one she wrote HERE, or get Lila to draw a beautiful picture celebrating...
Real Friends Don't Call Friends "The Maid"
Miss Millie: You kids are so clean. You wanna come work for me? Be my maid?Sophia: Hell no. from The Color Purple These lines, and...
Soar With the Angels, Dorothy Irene Height (3.24.1912 4.20.2010)
Black women are the backbone of every institution, but sometimes they are not recognized as even being there, even in the civil rights movement. There...
Room To Spare
So four more months and Mazi will be headed to Lafayette College. Which means… SPARE ROOM! What? Ain’t no shame in my game. Before the...
Celebrating and Finally Loving! My Curves
Editor's note: I wrote this piece after a riveting conversation with the brilliant T. Allen-Mercado of Tea & Honey Bread, who is exploring body and...
Green is the New Black!
So how fly is my sister-in-law/BFF/resident environmentalist Angelou? So fly that she’s in Washington, repping her non-profit children’s environmental group, Greening Youth Foundation, at a...
To Hell With Marriage Vows
I’ve been itching to write about all this cheating husband mess running all up and through Hollywood, but my girl/co-author Mitzi of the hysterical Mitzi...
Wordful Wednesday: A Spring Break Family Affair on St. Simon's Island
I was looking through iPhoto on my desktop earlier today and came across these pictures snapshots of a spring break vacation our family took with...
One Fine Day
Today, I’m starting work on a new book… My husband is writing a book of his own… We’re walking on clouds after finding out our...
What's Your Kid Having For School Lunch Today?
Let me be the first to raise my hand and cop to it: I don't always feed my family the healthiest meals. I mean, we...
Cheetah Girl Gone Wild
I get it: It’s never been an easy fete for a child star to make the transition into adult (working) actor, right? I mean, Hollywood...
MyBrownBaby Mom: Holly Robinson Peete
CONGRATULATIONS Arlice Nichole and Hil’Lesha you’re the winners of autographed copies of “My Brother Charlie,” by Holly Robinson-Peete and Ryan Peete! The hair, the smarts,...
Word(ful) Wednesday: Janelle Monáe's "Tightrope"
Janelle Monáe and her extremely catchy tune, “Tightrope,” off her sophomore album, “The Arch Android,” are both just too cute for words. I especially love...
"Pimp" Twitter Feud Between Demi Moore and Kim Kardashian Got Me Thinking…
Full disclosure: I’m no fan of Kim Kardashian anyway. I mean, seriously? She got famous from making an uninspired, yawn-of-a-p-oRn tape with Brandy’s little brother....
