Chris Brown’s Grammy Twitter Rant Shows He Still Doesn’t Get It.

After winning a 2012 Grammy Award for Best R&B album and making a triumphant return to the Grammy stage three years after the brutal 2009...

– Feb 15, 2012

A 10-Year Sentence for Baby Snatching? It’s an Outrage!

By NICK CHILES The American criminal justice system is a strange creature. While it’s possible in some states to spend decades in jail for possessing...

– Feb 15, 2012

Learning How To Care For Black Baby Hair—Plus Two Awesome $185 CARA B Naturally Giveaways!

So, like, is it weird that I was totally obsessed with my Mari’s hair before she was born? Seriously, I was—wanted to know if she’d...

– Feb 15, 2012

Finding True Love On Valentine’s Day {Digging In the MBB Crates}

This is the way it seemed to always work: A few weeks before Valentine’s Day, whatever loser I was dating at the time would break...

– Feb 14, 2012

Who Turned Valentine’s Day Into an Elementary School Candy Bonanza?

Who authorized it so that our kids are lugging home a bag full of candy and a whole bunch of fairly meaningless, generic cards on Valentine's Day?

– Feb 14, 2012

Jennifer Hudson’s Grammy Awards Tribute To Whitney Houston (Video)

LL Cool J’s move to open the Grammy Awards 2012 show with a prayer for Whitney Houston was touching, and Alicia Keys was right to...

– Feb 13, 2012

Too Short Is Too Outrageous in Advising Little Boys to Commit Sexual Assault

By NICK CHILES Outrage doesn’t begin to describe my reaction to the “advice” column by Too Short on the website of the hip hop magazine...

– Feb 13, 2012

Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds: Watch the Live Chat and Red Carpet Premiere Here on MyBrownBaby

Grab your popcorn, grab your drinks: Filmmaker Tyler Perry will be chatting live today with his fans via Yahoo and Facebook, answering questions about his...

– Feb 13, 2012

Whitney Houston Dies At 48—A Sad Farewell To An Icon We Absolutely Adore

My God—my heart is absolutely broken over the death of Whitney Houston. Just… broken. To consider that this songbird, this lead actress in some of...

– Feb 11, 2012

Dad Of the Year: Father Shoots Daughter’s Laptop After She Disses Parents On FaceBook

I promise you, this video gave me LIFE today. It’s star? A disgruntled dad pissed that his 15-year-old daughter took to Facebook to complain about...

– Feb 11, 2012

First Pictures Of Blue Ivy Carter: Check Out Beyonce & Jay-Z’s Beautiful Baby!

Of course every baby is beautiful—a glorious gift—and we celebrate the wondrous miracle of every new life. But we gotta be honest here: Some babies...

– Feb 10, 2012

Roland Martin’s Suspension, Obama’s Birth Control Tweak, Beyonce’s Skin & Other Fresh Links

This week, the internet lit up like the Rockefeller Christmas Tree over Roland Martin’s suspension from CNN—a suspension prompted after the celebrated commentator sent out...

– Feb 10, 2012

Macy’s Celebrates Romare Bearden’s 100th Birthday With A Must-See, In-Store Art Exhibit

Ask any one of my children the one thing they’re supposed to buy for their mother when they grow up and get rich and famous...

– Feb 10, 2012

Adele Puts Karl Lagerfeld In His Place—And This Curvy Black Woman Is Proud Of Her For Doing It

Adele, the British vocalist with the black soul singer pipes and a voluptuous body to match, is my hero today—not only because I adore her...

– Feb 9, 2012

Even When You Try, Keeping Teenagers from Having Sex in Your Home Can be Complicated

By NICK CHILES Should you allow your teenager to have sex in your house? This was a question posed by Clutch and like many, if...

– Feb 9, 2012
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