The Scariest Pro-Breastfeeding Video For Black Moms, Like, Ever
I mean, I’m trying really hard to focus on what’s important about this video. You score with me every time if you’re encouraging mothers to...
Hunger Game Fans’ Racist Tweets: The Devaluation Of Black Children On Screen & In Real Life
With the vicious smear campaign launched against Trayvon Martin, the savage beating death of an Iraqi-American mother of five, killed in her own home by...
Birthing While Black In the Jim Crow South Stole My Grandmother: Thankfully, Things Change
Welcome to the First Edition of the Black Birth Carnival, hosted by Darcel of The Mahogany Way Birth Cafe and Nicole of Musings From The...
Black Breastfeeding 360°: Celebrating A New Resource For African American Moms, Plus: A Nursing Bra Giveaway!
By KIMBERLY ALLERS I spend a lot of my time writing (loudly) about the problems I see in the world. Particularly, those affecting black mothers...
Black Parents: Help Tell OUR Breastfeeding Stories, Our Way
MyBrownBaby Moms, Dads and Friends, My friend, fellow blogger and black mom champion Kimberly Seals Allers of MochaManual.com needs our help. As part of her...
Beyonce Breastfeeds Blue Ivy: Can White Advocates Give Black Moms Our Breastfeeding Victory?
By KIMBERLY ALLERS Dear White Women, I know the breastfeeding world is all abuzz over reports that Beyonce breastfed her beautifully brown baby, Blue Ivy...
Birthing While Black: This African American Mom’s Experience Was Anything But VIP
There are a ton of things I’ll never forget about the first time I gave birth—showing up with a Donny Hathaway CD in one hand,...
Erykah “Badoula” And The Business of Birthing: Can Midwifery Help Stem Black Infant Mortality Rates?
I’m not gonna lie: When those labor pains kicked my groin like they came from the hooves of a giant, honery, angry mule, I practically...
The HPV Vaccine: Weeding Through the Controversy For the Sake Of My Black Girls
It was never a question for us the pediatrician would say the girls were due for this vaccine or that one, and we’d hold Mari...
I Am Troy Davis And You Are, Too: Pondering The Death Penalty, Reasonable Doubt & Black Men
Troy Anthony Davis could be my father. My husband. My brother. My son. My nephew. My friend. One of us. And I am sorely reminded...
