Hadiya Pendleton: Chicago Gun Violence Takes Star Teen From Inauguration To the Mortuary
Her name was Hadiya Pendleton, and she was only 15 years old. The dimples in her cheeks, the sparkle in her eyes—each of these tell...
Michelle Obama’s Hair: FLOTUS Bangs Are Sexy, Grown and Inspiring For Moms
Virginia Republicans are hijacking the state’s electoral vote system, Congress is prepping for another debt ceiling knock-down, drag-out, and, for the first time ever, the...
Roe v. Wade At 40: Pondering Reproductive Rights For Our Daughters
I’d left the New York Times out on the table, with a story about the death of an abortion doctor right there on the front...
Chris Rock’s Stalker Petitions To Get Shawty Lo & Mamas Back On Oxygen
A day after a nearly 40,000-signature petition pressured the Oxygen network to pull the plug on a reality show chronicling Shawty Lo and the 10...
Update: Oxygen Officially Cancels Shawty Lo’s Show; “Amen” to Power of the People
By NICK CHILES UPDATE: Oxygen officially announced it has cancelled Shawty Lo’s “All My Babies’ Mamas,” a reality show that was to chronicle the relationship...
The Latest On Shawty Lo’s “All My Babies Mamas,” Plus MBB Fresh Links
Some 35,000 petition signatures and a week’s worth of negative press later, Oxygen is vowing to move forward with their plans to air the stupidly...
The Best Of MyBrownBaby, 2012 Edition: Stories That Moved the MBB Crowd
From controversial shootings (Trayvon Martin), celebrity deaths (Whitney Houston) and celebrity kid growing pains (Willow Smith) to political triumphs (President Barack Obama and Obamacare) and...
Jada Pinkett-Smith On Willow Smith’s Hair, Beauty And Her Daughter’s Right To Own Her Own Body
Jada Pinkett-Smith gives sound advice on raising confident Black girls—and we're here for it.
Breastfeeding Is Not Creepy—And Neither Is The Breastmilk Baby
So, apparently the Earth is about to spin off its rotational axis and the sun is two seconds from stopping its shine now that the...
Why I’m Voting For Barack Obama In the 2012 Presidential Election
Last night marked the last of the debates between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and with just two weeks to go...
