12-Year-Old Shot By Police: No Safe Place For Black Children
Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old shot by police, was a child who had the right to be just that... A CHILD.
Moms With HIV: Slaying the Stigma With the #StopHIVTogether Campaign
These women—these heroes—are sharing their stories to help put a human face on the challenges and triumphs they've faced and enjoyed respectively as they've battled the virus.
Chris Brown ‘Lost His Virginity’ at 8 and Thinks It’s Something To Brag About. Except It’s Not.
Right, so, this explains a lot: Chris Brown says he lost his virginity at age 8, to a girl who was 14 or 15 years...
In Trayvon Martin’s Name: Words, Art and Music Inspired By the Death of the Son We All Call Our Own
Some of the finest of art is painted with the broad colors of our pain: Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” would not have existed if not...
Black Girls Have Quvenzhane’s Back, Plus: Michelle Obama’s Mom Dancing, Daddy’s Money Sneaks & More
I promise you this: the backlash The Onion faced after calling Best Actress Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis the “c” word was swift and severe, but it...
There’s Nothing Complicated About Fair Pay For Women, Mitt Romney—Plus, Other Fresh Links
You know what? I’m not trying to let Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s “Binder Full Of Women” comments from the second 2012 presidential debate slide....
When It Comes to Dating and Hooking Up Sites, Leave the Kiddies Out of It!
By NICK CHILES Now we get word that an online social and dating site called Skout has shut down its teen section after reports surfaced...
Tweens, Dating and the Value of Girls and Women
By NADIRAH ANGAIL I have a brother-in-law (five of them actually, but let’s just focus on the one). He likes to joke about how my...
The HPV Vaccine: Weeding Through the Controversy For the Sake Of My Black Girls
It was never a question for us the pediatrician would say the girls were due for this vaccine or that one, and we’d hold Mari...
Why White Parents Should Teach Their Children About Race
Really, it wasn’t planned, this cornucopia of color and races and backgrounds and experiences. It was just Mari’s birthday party, a tiny affair that involved...
