Tell Your Brown Baby It's Quite Okay to Be Brilliant… and Fabulous
My Mari’s always been the quiet one. Not the shy one, really. Just quiet. The kind of kid who’ll sit back, survey the land, and...
Or Maybe I'll Just Enjoy The Color Purple…
I've been laboring at two jobs since the summer of sophomore year at Brentwood High School, when I kicked off my working life pulling a...
Home Made Love: Screamin' Mean Collard Greens
When Mommy was growing up, collard greens were usually made for special occasions like big Sunday dinners when company was coming over, or on Thanksgiving,...
MyBrownBaby Redux: Damn that Lil' Wayne–Now I Have To Live Without My Radio.
Black radio apparently is facing an uphill battle against a bill that would charge radio stations millions of dollars in fees to play music for...
MyBrownBaby MOM OF THE WEEK: Tara Pringle Jefferson
Honest to goodness, I’d pay top dollar for just an ounce of Tara Pringle Jefferson’s energy. The wife and mommy of two is one of...
MyBrownBaby Presents asha bandele: She's Something Like Beautiful
I've met author asha bandele only once in person, yet we’ve gotten on the phone a million times and talked for hours about everything our...
Just Call Her Little Nikki Giovanni: My Brown Baby Tries Her Hand At Poetry
Have mercy, school is over and there’s an avalanche of graded papers, old school supplies, and random art/science/social studies projects cluttering literally every surface of...
Make a Splash and Save a Life: Teach Our Babies How to Swim
I'll never forget the first day I took my baby girl, Mari, to see the ocean. She was so tiny couldn't walk yet without my...
Disney's First African American Princess Is Frame-Ready!
I wrote back in February about how it’s going to be a whole new world at Disney with the debut of Princes Tiana, Disney's first...
The SITStahs Are In The MyBrownBaby House!
It's a par-tay over here y'all MyBrownBaby is droppin’ it like it’s hawt because it’s a MyBrownBaby SITSday! The lovely ladies at The Secret is...
MyBrownBaby Loves The Bernie Mac Show
And this is exactly why I love me some Bernie Mac foul mouth, tart tongue, this is some bull brashness and all. I was on...
They’ll Wear The Armor: Guarding My Babies From The “N” Word
I know their day is coming. It is as certain as wet rain, as sure as the yellow in the sun. They are, after all,...
Home Made Love: Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
We like peanut butter cookies but we love them with the sweet sugary chocolate on the top. We like to lick the kisses off when...
And the No. 1 Reason Why Live Animals Don't Make Good Party Favors Is…
This is M&M. He’s a 23 cent goldfish. In a bowl with accessories totaling $40, purchased for the 23-cent goldfish named M&M because the original...
Where's The Media Frenzy When Brown Babies Go Missing?
Late last month when I wrote a blog about the delicious site Black And Married With Kids, one of MyBrownBaby’s followers, Kat of The Kat...
