In Trayvon Martin’s Name: Words, Art and Music Inspired By the Death of the Son We All Call Our Own
Some of the finest of art is painted with the broad colors of our pain: Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” would not have existed if not...
MyBrownBaby Beauty: Stunning Photographs Of African American Children
Photographs of pretty babies make my heart flutter—those juicy cheeks, those sweet lips, those lovely eyes. It’s as if the lens captured the very essence...
What Beating A Child With A Cord Looks Like (Newsflash: It Is NOT Good Parenting)
By DR. STACEY PATTON The digital universe is full of viral videos of adults beating children. I view them warily, alert for triggers that catapult...
Father Who Beat Daughters With Cable Wire For Twerking Should Be Charged With Child Abuse
I am shaking, eyes filled with water, heart racing, alternately horrified, disgusted and absolutely pissed after watching the viral video of a father beating his...
Bump the Princeton Mom Letter: What I Want MY Daughters To Know About Love at College
Here’s what Susan Patton, a nice, Upper East Side Jewish mom who graduated Princeton Class ’77, wants my daughters to know: when they get to...
NYC Teen Pregnancy Ads Try To Shame and Insult Teen Girls Into Not Having Babies
Well yeah, this makes all the sense in the world: New York City’s Human Resources Administration is going all in with a new “straight talk”...
Marissa Mayer & Yahoo’s New ‘Work At Home’ Rules: The Mom CEO Show’s She’s Just One Of the Boys
So just a few days into her six-month anniversary as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer announced through a Human Resources memo that all the yahoos...
A Valentine’s Day Dance With A Purpose: Helping To End Violence Against Women
Today, my daughter and I will dance. Not just because we’re happy. Or because we feel like doing some Soul Train-styled dance off featuring the...









