Got (Breast) Milk? It Does Your Baby And Your Body! Good
By ANGELA CARSTARPHEN WATFORD Sometimes as a new mom I feel like a cow literally thanks to my new bootylicious bootée and my new bodacious...
Would You Buy Someone Elses Breast Milk And Feed It To Your Baby? Um, Not Me.
By KIA MORGAN SMITH Lord knows I understand the desperation some moms have to get breast milk to their babies when they can’t produce it...
The North Paran Book Buzz List: Fun Summer Reads For Black Children
The librarian at my Mari’s school is a rock star. Like, Lady Gaga-worthy rock star. Like, seriously? During the school year, there wasn’t a week...
{Dr. Ivor Is In} Summer Skincare For Black Children: It May Not Crack, But It WILL Burn
By DR. IVOR HORN So I got a tweet recently with a link to this YouTube video, “Dear 16-year-old Me,” a piece created by the...
MyBrownBaby Fresh: What We’re Doing, Watching and Supporting This Week
I'm working with about five hours worth of sleep this morning after an evening full of raucous, giggly sleepover party madness with a stable of...
MyBrownBaby Slated To Hit the Red Carpet At Disney Pixar’s “Cars 2” Premiere!
By KIA MORGAN SMITH Disney is rolling out the red carpet and zooming 20 blogger moms to Los Angeles for a rip-roarin' good time for...
Bill Duke’s “Dark Girls”: Black Women Discussing, Dissecting and Surviving Skin Color Bias
It was about a week ago that my friend Melanie of ModernMami posted this video, a preview of the upcoming documentary, Dark Girls, on the...
Family Hides Gender of Newborn For Protection From Stereotypes? Must Be Nice.
By Jennifer Johnson If you missed it, a Canadian family recently named their new baby “Storm” and announced to the world that they’ve opted not to...
Team Beyonce: Why I’m Okay With Her Controversial New Song, “Run the World (Girls)”
First, let me say this: I love me some Beyonce. Oh, I've tried to find fault to say she's shallow, to hate on her overt...
Wordful Wednesday: Digging My Beautiful Brown Babies Through the Lens Of My iPhone
My Nikon D-50, my baby, my ace, is dead. Well, not dead but in need of some resuscitation at a bonafide camera hospital. And I’ve...
That Psychology Today Blog May Say Black Girls Are Ugly, But My Baby Knows Better
After all that yang poppin’ last week over the foolish “study” that claimed black women are the ugliest of all human beings on the planet,...
The NorthParan Buzz List: Six Books Every Black Newborn Should Have On the Shelf
I started reading to my first born, Mari, while she was still in the womb fantastic stories by authors like Andrea Pinkney, Vera B. Williams...
The Attack Against Black Girl Beauty
A mother tells her daughters they are the epitome of black girl beauty because the world conspires to tell them otherwise.
Be Awesome: Vote MyBrownBaby The Best Parenting Blog In the Black Weblog Awards
Yesterday, these words from MyBrownBaby reader Brock Qualls in response to a feature I wrote about Kirk Franklin and Mari's BFF, Mekdes, made me teary:...
Kirk Franklin’s “I Smile” Video Plus, the Debut of Mari’s Super Giggly BFF
Here’s the thing you need to know about my Mari: She picks...
