A Mother’s Love: A Love Letter To The Woman Who Gave Me Away {Diggin In the MBB Crates}
Editor’s Note: This will be the 10th Mother’s Day I’ll have without her, and though I’m sure it will nowhere near as painful as the...
Paying Homage To The OB-GYN Who Escorted Me Into Motherhood: Happy Mother’s Day!
I was a young reporter when I met her—flat stomach, full of energy, still eating popcorn and rainbow sherbert for dinner, still 120 lbs. soaking...
Where Did Our Love Go? Anthony Hamilton’s Wife Talks Motherhood & Marriage In New Book
Editor’s Note: Tarsha Hamilton is a woman who wears many hats. She is a singer/songwriter who has traveled the world sharing her gift. Married to...
Absentee Black Fathers: A Black Dad Says It’s Time More Brothers Take Care Of Their Children
By SHAWN TAYLOR When my daughter was born, I didn’t experience the love at first sight that so many parents talk about. In fact, I felt...
Eve’s Colorblind Babies: When Celebrity Gets In the Way Of Remembering Why Race Matters
Now I love Eve, the pitbull in a skirt-turned-“it” girl on the Hollywood scene, and her relationship with British entrepreneur and race car driver Maximillion...
Morehouse Students Charged With Raping Spelman Student: Melissa Harris-Perry Weighs In From Our Perspective
I was so moved by Melissa Harris-Perry‘s discussion yesterday about rape culture on college campuses. Yes, I know: it’s been a popular discussion of late,...
A village answers ‘What does it mean to raise a Black child in the 21st century?’
By SHAWN TAYLOR I’ll get right down to it. I asked several people the following question: What does it mean to raise a Black child in...
Teen Charged For School Science Project Gone Bad: Where’s the Justice In Zero-Tolerance?
This right here is why America’s public schools stay failing black children: A 16-year-old Florida student with a rep for being one of the smart,...
Blue Ivy’s Hair: Seriously, Folk—Leave Beyonce and Jay-Z’s Child All the Way Alone Already
Four MyBrownBaby words about Blue Ivy’s hair: Leave. That. Baby. Alone. I say this because after more than a year of everyone begging to see...
As Our 10-Year-Old Cheers the End of State Tests, We Wish They Would Go Away
By NICK CHILES When our 10-year-old tumbled off the schoolbus today, the relief on her face tucked all up in that broad smile, it signaled...
As We Castigate Georgia’s Segregated Prom, America Needs to Stop the Hypocrisy
By NICK CHILES There were congratulations and smiles across the national media over the weekend as Wilcox County, Georgia, finally had its first-ever integrated prom....
Fresh Links: Ebony.com’s New Beauty Column For Brown Girls, Plus New Janelle Monet & An MBB Honor
Watch out there now: My super adorable, fly as pie, dopalicious cousin Melanie Yvette Martin, a beauty maven who has a delicious sense of style...
Fatherhood Fitness: How One Black Dad Took Control Of His Health—For His Daughter’s Sake
By SHAWN TAYLOR The invincibility of youth is amazing, but it fades: the reality of my body’s limits now hit in my knees, the small of...
Obama Family Tattoo: President Tells Sasha & Malia If They Get Inked, He and Michelle Will, Too
My President and First Lady are so gangsta, particularly when it comes to Sasha and Malia and any ideas the First Daughters may have had about...
Steubenville Coach Gets A Two-Year Contract Extension—and the Students Lose
Clearly, something ain’t right in the community well out in Steubenville, Ohio. It is there where teen girls get drugged. And raped while unconscious. And...
