Crushing On Girl Crush: An Unconventional Conversation On Beauty (VIDEO)
It’s the New Year—raise your hand if, at the stroke of midnight, you joined Weight Watchers, hired a personal trainer, poured all through those long-bookmarked...
“Django” Provided Many Lessons for Our Daughter—but “Roots” Did Too
By NICK CHILES We agonized for a couple of days whether we would take our 13-year-old daughter with us to see Django Unchained. We flipped...
Easy Bake Oven For Boys: A Black Dad Explains Why His Son Won’t Be Getting One
By JAMAL FREDRICK Over the past year, I’ve had an intense internal struggle over the rise of a parenting philosophy that makes me have almost...
Study: Arming Your Children With Race Pride Will Boost Their School Performance
By NICK CHILES They are among the most difficult questions a black parent has to face: How far do you go in preparing your children...
Shawty Lo Must Go: An Open Letter To Oxygen Media CEO Jason Klarman
Editor’s Note: MyBrownBaby Contributor Nick Chiles’ post, “If We Let Shawty Lo’s Show Get on the Air, We Will Have Failed Ourselves,” inspired an incredible...
Behind Jet Magazine’s Jordan Davis Cover: A Courageous Stand For Justice
I have been a reporter for more years than not and I’ve covered my fair share of death, heartache and controversy. It comes rather easy...
No Fear: Walking Into New Year 2013 With Confidence And No Doubt
My mother believed with all her might that whatever one was doing at the stroke of midnight on the first day of the New Year,...
If We Let Shawty Lo’s Show Get on the Air, We Will Have Failed Ourselves
By NICK CHILES Surely there has to be a line out there somewhere—a level of degradation, of downright sewer-level grossness, that is so low even...
The Best Of MyBrownBaby, 2012 Edition: Stories That Moved the MBB Crowd
From controversial shootings (Trayvon Martin), celebrity deaths (Whitney Houston) and celebrity kid growing pains (Willow Smith) to political triumphs (President Barack Obama and Obamacare) and...
Merry MyBrownBaby Christmas—”Christmas Story” Style! (VIDEO)
There’s three heads of hair to be done and cleaning to be done, too, and then there will be the cooking and the cleaning and...
Coretta Scott King’s Words On the Violence Of Poverty Still Ring True Today
Marinate on Corretta Scott King’s words—words she bravely shared in a speech on Solidarity Day, the traditional “Juneteenth” celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation, just months...
Kid-Friendly Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookie and Snowman Cupcake Recipes
With just days to go before Christmas, my girls have been making the rounds to all kinds of parties at school and at the homes...
Louis Armstrong Had A Child: The Daughter Of A Jazz Icon Yearns For A Father’s Love
On the first day, in the first 15 minutes after I met Sharon Preston-Folta, we cried together. Her story, her testimony, simply moved me. Sharon,...
Study Confirms: Our Childhoods Were Easier Than Our Kids’ Childhoods
By NICK CHILES As families across America know all too well, the last decade has been brutal on our pocketbooks. But while much of the...
If Newtown Shootings Showed Us Anything, It’s That Guns Kill People and It’s Time For Reform
There were news trucks outside my daughter’s elementary school on Friday. I’m guessing they wanted some local reaction to the shooting massacre of 26 people—including...
