Study: Drinking Beer Makes Men Smarter. Isn’t Science Awesome?
By NICK CHILES Finally, a study to confirm what men have been saying for years: Drinking beer actually makes men smarter. No, I am not...
Millionaire Ann Romney and the Fake Mommy Wars: What We Moms REALLY Want
I dislike them down to their expensive dirty drawers but I give Mitt and Ann Romney and their Republican party credit: they’re masters at turning...
Police Officer Sprays Arkansas Students With Pepper Spray to Clear the Halls
Students at an Arkansas junior high school this week were clearing the hall too slowly in the opinion of a police officer assigned to the...
Ultimate Blog Party 2012: Welcome To MyBrownBaby!
Ain’t no party like a MyBrownBaby party ‘cause a MyBrownBaby party don’t stoooop! Yup—it’s a party over here, y’all. The sun is shining, life is...
George Zimmerman Charged In Trayvon Martin’s Death: Justice For Black Children
A month and a half after shooting a child armed with nothing more than a bag of Skittles and a bottle of iced tea, weeks...
Just Two Days After Easter, a Mother’s Baby Comes Back to Life in Argentina
By NICK CHILES Wait, a mother visited her baby in the morgue—and when she opened the casket the baby came alive? At first I thought...
5-Year-Old Brings Heroin Packets To Show-and-Tell: The Calculated Risk Of Marrying Drug Dealers
Deep, deep sigh. And this from the “reasons why you should not date/marry drug dealers ever” files: A 5-year-old boy took 50 packets of heroin...
As Rick Santorum Drops Out, I Feel His Family’s Pain—But I’m Glad to See Him Go
By NICK CHILES As I watched Rick Santorum’s announcement that he was dropping out of the Republican presidential primary, I was of two minds: I was...
A Strange Twist on a Tragic Case: George Zimmerman Launches a Website to Make Money
By NICK CHILES Attempting to take advantage of the same digital tsunami that made Trayvon Martin’s murder perhaps the country’s top news story over the...
10-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth, Becoming World’s Youngest Mother
Know that when you read the next sentence, nothing is wrong with your eyes and there is no typo here. A 10-year-old Colombian girl gave...
The Obamas On Easter Sunday: Sasha and Malia Remind Me How Far I’ve Fallen As A Mother
Looking at pictures of President Obama walking with his beautiful family to Easter service at St. John’s Church got me all nostalgic about the big...
CNN Study Showing Black Kids Have Racial Bias is Merely a Snapshot of American Life
By NICK CHILES A CNN study on race relations has yielded a news tidbit that is likely to spread across the media like a forest...
Clean Like A Mother: the Method All-Purpose Cleaner Put To the MyBrownBaby Test
For the past month, I’ve been cleaning like a mother with method’s all-purpose cleaner to see if it stands up to the tried-and-true cleaning products...
Beyonce Shows Off Family On New Tumblr Page, Plus More MyBrownBaby Fresh Links
Beyonce debuted her new Tumblr page, Beyonce | I Am, a beautifully arted website on which the notoriously private star shows off pictures of vacations,...
“Mirror Mirror” Is A Funny Twist On The Classic Snow White Fairy Tale
The following review was written by MyBrownBaby’s youngest contributor, 9-year-old Lila Chiles. By LILA CHILES This movie version of “Mirror Mirror” is different than the...
