black mothers (294 results)

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...

– Jul 17, 2013

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...

– Jun 26, 2013

A Mother’s Love: A Love Letter To The Woman Who Gave Me Away {Diggin In the MBB Crates}

Editor’s Note: This will be the 10th Mother’s Day I’ll have without her, and though I’m sure it will nowhere near as painful as the...

– May 10, 2013

Easing Mommy Guilt: 20 Quick Ways To Connect With Your Baby When Time Is Short

Even to this day, more than a decade later, I remember what it felt like—that gnawing, desperately unsettled, perpetually unsatisfied, I’m-totally-failing-my-baby feeling I had when...

– Apr 22, 2013

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...

– Apr 8, 2013

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...

– Apr 3, 2013

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...

– Apr 2, 2013

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”...

– Mar 7, 2013

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...

– Feb 26, 2013

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...

– Feb 14, 2013
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