EBONY Love: Nia Long, Common and MyBrownBaby Bare It All!
My God, I loved being pregnant. Swollen feet, morning sickness, constipation and Mac truck-sized pre-natal vitamins aside, feeling that little body flutter against my belly,...
Mind Control: Raising A Critical Thinker
By CAROLYN EDGAR My son’s 5th grade Humanities class was given an assignment to write a letter to the Founding Fathers, explaining how the Constitution...
{Let’s Talk About Sex} How A Single Mom Talks To Her Son About Sex
By MICHELLE BOND When I close my eyes and think of my man taking me in his arms and passionately kissing me, I imagine us...
{Let’s Talk About Sex} A Recipe For Solid Relationships Between Black Girls and Boys
I’m not sure who wrote or designed this poster—just that my blog friend Chantily Patino of BiCulturalMom.com posted it on my personal facebook page. There’s...
How An Unplanned Pregnancy Changed The Way I Want To Talk To My Kids About Sex
By TARA PRINGLE JEFFERSON I quickly took the pregnancy test out of the bag and fumbled with the instructions: Pee on the stick, wait three...
{Let’s Talk About Sex} The Best Ways For Parents To Get Ready For “The Talk”
My talk with my mom about menstruation went something like this: Me: Mommy? We learned about periods in health class today. The teacher said we...
Honoring Uncle Willie: Help Run, Wifey, Run Raise $ For Cancer Research—And More Birthdays
I don’t know the particulars of how they met—just that it happened sometime when my Daddy was five and his big brother was seven and...
The HPV Vaccine: Weeding Through the Controversy For the Sake Of My Black Girls
It was never a question for us the pediatrician would say the girls were due for this vaccine or that one, and we’d hold Mari...
I Am Troy Davis And You Are, Too: Pondering The Death Penalty, Reasonable Doubt & Black Men
Troy Anthony Davis could be my father. My husband. My brother. My son. My nephew. My friend. One of us. And I am sorely reminded...
Not All Sugar Is Sweet: 10 Great Tips For Staving Off Diabetes In Black Kids
By Rachel Garlinghouse I was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at age 24, and I often say that on that day, my whole family got...
{On the Parenting Post} Young, Gifted & Black
This week, as part of a blog-a-thon hosted by Parenting.com’s Mom Congress, I wrote an open letter to my daughters about what their father and...
On the MyBrownBaby Bookshelf: Dancer
By JANELLE HERBERT DANCER, by Lorri Hewett (Dutton Books) The incredibly intriguing book, Dancer, is a fascinating read about the struggles of a 16-year-old African-American...
Spend My Life With You: Celebrating Black Love With BlackAndMarriedWithKids.com
With all this yapping about the tragically single black woman and how she’ll never, ever find a mate unless she sinks all manner of expectations...
Atlanta Diaper Relief: Helping Mothers and Babies When They Need It Most—In a BIG Way
By KIA MORGAN SMITH Last year it really ticked me off when my son’s teacher left him in a soiled diaper all day. It was...
{My Four Sons} The Sorrowful Last Days of “Who Would Win In A Fight”
By DERRICK BARNES I think, on average, that ten is the cut-off age. It’s around that time that boys begin to almost completely lose the...
