Trayvon Martin’s Girlfriend Reveals He Ran From George Zimmerman Before His Death (UPDATE)
By NICK CHILES UPDATE: Today, as we learn from Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend that the teen ran from Neighborhood Watch captain George Zimmerman as he stalked...
Down With Pink Slime Meat: Healthy Recipes I’m Cooking Up With Curtis Stone & Vicks Nature Fusion
So, with all the stories about the ammonia-treated pink slime hiding in fast food, our kids’ school lunches and even the ground beef and lunch...
Beyonce’s First Concert After Blue Ivy’s Birth: Getting Back To Work After the Baby
Word on the streets of Atlantic City is that just four months after the birth of her baby girl Blue Ivy Carter, new mom Beyonce...
Student Told To Read Langston Hughes Poem “Blacker”
A Virginia high school English teacher is under fire for repeatedly singling out her sole African American student—most recently demanding that the 9th grader read...
911 Tapes In The Trayvon Martin Killing Reveal He Begged For Help; Zimmerman Shot Twice (UPDATE)
By NICK CHILES While the furor over the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin continues to build, the release of the 911 tapes surrounding the...
Black Breastfeeding 360°: Celebrating A New Resource For African American Moms, Plus: A Nursing Bra Giveaway!
By KIMBERLY ALLERS I spend a lot of my time writing (loudly) about the problems I see in the world. Particularly, those affecting black mothers...
Missing for 8 Years, A Boy Will Reunite in Texas With His Real Mother
By NICK CHILES There was joy in Texas earlier this week when a long-distraught mother, Auboni Champion-Morin, whose child has been missing since 2004, was...
Dr. Ian Smith Dishes Healthy Living at Disney’s Dreamers Academy
By LORRAINE SANABRIA ROBERTSON Dr. Ian Smith, medical/diet expert on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club, author and founder of The 50 Million Pound Challenge, shared these...
Dad Beats Up Daughter’s Basketball Coach, Teaches Wrong Lesson
By NICK CHILES An Indiana dad, Shelly Miller, was arrested last week for beating his elementary school daughter’s assistant basketball coach unconscious and giving him...
Saggy Pants Ban In NYC Schools? Taking Matters a Step Too Far
By NICK CHILES The New York City Schools Chancellor is considering whether he will accede to a state senator’s wish to ban saggy pants in...
Black Girl Hair: Are We Born With Short, Kinky Curls Until We Get A Weave?
By TRISSHA TAYLOR We live in a time that is constantly being referred to as the Information Age. Why? Because never before has information been so...
Clean Happy With Method Products & MyBrownBaby!
Nothing against Method home-care products, but I have my allegiances, right? I mean, my mother taught me how to clean and do laundry and she...
The Nation Is Watching: the Killer of Trayvon Martin MUST Be Arrested (UPDATE)
By NICK CHILES UPDATE: the case in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch captain in the child’s Sanford,...
Score! Women Who Drink Wine and Eat Chocolate Will Live Longer
By NICK CHILES Researchers at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital have concluded that women who engage in light to moderate drinking at the end of...
Bobbi Kristina On Oprah: Whitney Houston’s Spirit Tells Me To “Keep Going, Baby.”
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Whitney’s Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, her sister-in-law, Patricia Houston and her brother, Gary Houston, was many things: sincere, touching, eye-opening,...
