For Our Daughters: Inspirational Quotes From The Nobel Peace Prize Speeches
Nobel Peace Prize diplomas and gold medals were presented on Saturday to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, social worker and peace activist Leymah Gbowee...
Videotaped Beatings and Child Abuse Handbook Show Why Hitting Kids Is Dead Wrong
Let me ask you this: Has the whole world gone mad? No, seriously, were the tickets to Nuttyville discounted at the local Wal-Mart or something?...
Mind Control: Raising A Critical Thinker
By CAROLYN EDGAR My son’s 5th grade Humanities class was given an assignment to write a letter to the Founding Fathers, explaining how the Constitution...
MBB Fresh: Mobilizing Moms In Support Of Women’s Health & Economic Rights (HERrights)
By KRISTIN ROWE-FINKBEINER On the anniversaries of the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment and the 1963 March on Washington, which are this week, MomsRising is...
Baby Love: Are You Ready For Another Child Or Is the Shop Closed?
My blog homie Britni Danielle, who holds it down lovely over at Clutch (my online Bible for all things young, black, smart and feminine), has been putting...
A Message For Young Moms: You CAN “Make It Happen”
By TARA PRINGLE JEFFERSON Sleepy and still aching from my C-section, I took a quick walk to the mailbox to get some fresh air and...
Keep Ya Head Up: Celebrating Tupac Shakur On His 40th Birthday
I don’t let my kids listen to most hip hop not just yet. Occasionally, I’ll slip a little Tribe Called Quest, Common, Pete Rock &...
Got (Breast) Milk? It Does Your Baby And Your Body! Good
By ANGELA CARSTARPHEN WATFORD Sometimes as a new mom I feel like a cow literally thanks to my new bootylicious bootée and my new bodacious...
Would You Buy Someone Elses Breast Milk And Feed It To Your Baby? Um, Not Me.
By KIA MORGAN SMITH Lord knows I understand the desperation some moms have to get breast milk to their babies when they can’t produce it...
Team Beyonce: Why I’m Okay With Her Controversial New Song, “Run the World (Girls)”
First, let me say this: I love me some Beyonce. Oh, I've tried to find fault to say she's shallow, to hate on her overt...











