{Let’s Talk About Sex} How A Single Mom Talks To Her Son About Sex
By MICHELLE BOND When I close my eyes and think of my man taking me in his arms and passionately kissing me, I imagine us...
{Bringing Up Boogie} The Longing: A Single Mom Searches For Magic In the Darkness
By BASSEY IKPI So this sadness returns quietly. Always quietly. No great trumpeting or horn blast. No drum circle or full bodied gospel wail. No...
A Black Single Mom Lets Go Of the Fear And the Statistics
By Alicia Harper I never thought of myself as a fearful person. I’m more the person who believes in the beauty of believing that anything...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Single Mom Dating Is Confusing And Kinda Sucks Ass
I've been single since before Boogie was born. I was not with his father while I was pregnant or any time after that. I've dated...
Watch This! Diary of a Single Mom
It’s a story that always seems to be told from the underbelly the single mom as the long-suffering, community-ruining, government program-draining, man-eating, neck-swizzling baby mama...
Homeschooling Black Children: This Is How (and Why!) This Mom Does It. Plus: a Book Giveaway!
Homeschooling Black children took a whole 'nother meaning after this white mom of brown children saw Black history ignored in her children's school.
The Attack On Black Single Mothers: Outrunning Stereotypes, Carrying the Burden
Black mothers are forced to expend energy trying to outrun the idea that they are bad mothers who birth and then neglect bad kids with uninvolved, bad daddies. And that's a sin and a shame.
This Picture of Hero Mom Toya Graham, Her Son and Anderson Cooper Is Worth 1,000 Words
Hero mom Toya Graham and her son, Michael Singleton, are pawns. This picture makes that very clear.
Hip Hop Heart: J. Cole Will Let Single Mothers Live at 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Sensitive to the dilemma single moms face when it comes to housing their families, J. Cole plans to donate his childhood home to mothers in need.
Love & Renewal: What My Daddy Taught Me After Mom Passed Away
I expected my father to need a lot of hand-holding at our first holiday dinner after mom died. Boy, was I wrong.