The Tiger Mom Effect: When Immigrant Parents Think Their Childrearing Is Better Than Blacks’
I don’t know—maybe her balls were just hanging low that day. How else to explain how easily it rolled off her tongue? “You’re not like...
The Baby Who Never Was: Black Women and Miscarriage
The cramping started in the car—sharp pains that felt like the spasms I get when my period is imminent. By the time I got back...
Black Moms and Ghetto Parents: They Are NOT One in the Same
Five years ago, Nick and I traded in our home in a lovely, comfortably upper middle class neighborhood in New Jersey for a house in...
Black Moms ARE Different and That’s OK.
So, after yet another white mom stomped onto MyBrownBaby accusing me of “segregating” myself for writing about issues affecting black moms, my homegirl Akilah over...
Playground Politics: A 20-Something Black Mom Negotiates Strollers and Stereotypes
By TARA PRINGLE JEFFERSON The judgmental stares start as soon as I pull up into the parking lot of the neighborhood playground. Among the rows...
Maybe They Thought the Black Would Run Off Into the Pool Water or Something…
When President Obama was elected into office, more than a few folks were shouting practically from the roof-tops that racism in America was dead. Um,...
Sadness For Michael: A Mom Cries For An Icon and Lost Black Boys Everywhere
By KIMBERLY SEALS ALLERS Yesterday, I cried watching the Michael Jackson memorial. I cried for a little black boy who felt the world didn't understand...
The Sun Will Surely Make You Black
By DENENE MILLNER This is what I did for fun when I was a kid: I read. I cornrowed my doll’s hair. I read some...
A Special Mother’s Day Tribute To The Women Who Helped Raise Me & The BFFs Who Show My Girlpies How To Be
On this Mother's Day, I not only celebrate my mother, but her friends and my friends, too—the women who helped me become the woman I am and who are helping my daughters be their best selves.
The MyBrownBaby Year In Review: Top Blog Posts
Though some people were quite vocal about their hate for Facebook’s “Year In Review” app, I appreciated it for reminding me to look back at...
