MyBrownBaby Fresh: What We’re Reading, Doing, Watching and Listening To This Week
I started out the week having a terrible, horrible, no good, bad day (relationship building and maintenance with businesses that refuse to recognize your worth...
#Don’t Judge Me: The MyBrownBaby Confessions
So the other day, a friend of mine took to FaceBook to make a confession and publicly flog herself for being, well, human: She accidentally...
Honey Do: No Thank You, Mr. Fix It.
Welcome to episode three of Honey Do: the Web Series, the whip-smart, funny, straight, no-chaser set of videos meant to help our men get a...
Yet Another Sign of the Coming Apocalypse: Abercrombie Kid’s Padded, Push-Up Bikini For 7-Year-Olds
Dear Abercrombie Kids, Padded, push-up bikinis for 7-year-olds? For real? I mean I’ve yet to see the second grader who has need to push up...
The NorthParan.com Book Buzzlist: Beauty Books For Black Women
Of course, we’re beautiful. But seeing evidence of this in beauty and fashion magazines and on the runways and other media that proclaims to be...
{Bringing Up Boogie} The Longing: A Single Mom Searches For Magic In the Darkness
By BASSEY IKPI So this sadness returns quietly. Always quietly. No great trumpeting or horn blast. No drum circle or full bodied gospel wail. No...
Bad Breath & Weak Handshakes: Denene Gives Tips On Handling Awkward Situations On the Today Show
As many of you know by now, I occasionally give expert advice on child-rearing, relationships and etiquette on the Today show. I stopped in earlier...
{On the Parenting Post} You Don’t Want None Of This.
If you see me walking down the aisle at the local Target and my 34 C’s are sticking out just a little bit extra today,...
Honey Do: Want Your Wife To Happily Wash the Laundry? Do This.
Welcome to episode two of Honey Do: the Web Series, the whip-smart, funny, straight, no-chaser set of videos meant to help our men get a...
I Need To Be #Winning Like Charlie Sheen: An Agent Intervention
She loves me. I know she does. But my agent hasn’t a problem embarrassing the crap out of me, especially when it comes to the...
{My Four Sons} How One Dedicated Father Made Reading Fundamental For His Son
By DERRICK BARNES For the most part, he’s everything I’m not. Well, not everything. I just wish I was born with his intensity and fire....
The North Paran Book Buzzlist: Inspirational Books for Black Teens
The North Paran Buzz Booklist is a weekly feature produced by NorthParan.com that gives readers an entertaining digest of the most fascinating books that are being...
Little Girl Loved: A Letter For the Cleveland, Texas Child From a Black Father Who Cares
By NICK CHILES Baby girl, I have some things that I need to say to you. It breaks my heart that these words are even...
Honey Do: Want Your Wife To Give You Some Tonight? Do This.
Yes! Welcome to the debut of Honey Do: the Web Series, the whip-smart, funny, straight, no-chaser set of videos meant to help our men get...
A Reformed Spanker Reveals Why She Wishes She Would Have Spared the Rod
By Michelle Bond Spare the rod, spoil the child. I’ve been hearing that Bible quote since the moment I became a parent. Elders in the...
