Black Women & Breast Cancer Research: Black Moms Needed For Important Health Studies
By TARA PRINGLE JEFFERSON Each year, 19,000 new cases of breast cancer occur among African American women. That’s 19,000 too many. According to the American...
{Dr. Ivor Is In} Birds, Bees, and Body Changes: Talking To Tweens & Teens About Puberty
By DR. IVOR HORN The first time I was interviewed about this subject my oldest child, a girl, was 9 years old. She is 13 now and...
Michelle Obama Hits Her Dougie With MyBrownBaby In Her “Let’s Move” Google+ Hangout (Video)
Michelle Obama celebrated the third anniversary of her landmark anti-child obesity program, “Let’s Move,” by participating in her first Google+ Hangout chat—and MyBrownBaby was right...
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...
A Different Labor Day: Improving Maternity Health For Black Moms and Babies
Labor Day holds a very special place in my heart for a very specific reason: I grew up in a household with parents who were...
Colorado Shooting & Babies In the Movie Theater: Should Kids See Adult Flicks?
While last week’s senseless Dark Knight Rising massacre in a Colorado theater has everyone talking about gun control, mental illness and alleged shooter James Holmes’s...
Rethinking Stretch Marks—Our Mom Tattoos
By HEATHER HOPSON When Beyonce’s bootylicous body bounced back four months after giving birth to Blue Ivy, many moms around the world sucked in their...
Beyonce Shed 60 LBs With Good Old Fashioned Exercise & Dieting
Beyonce revealed her weight loss number to fans during the second night of her Atlantic City concerts. The 30-year old pop diva gave birth to her daughter...
Baby In Washing Machine Put There by Sitter’s Boyfriend; Child Is Okay
Sweet baby Jesus, it just gets worse: turns out the tiny load seen in a video surveillance tape spinning in an active washing machine was...
I’ll Always Love My Mama: Missing My Mom On Mother’s Day (Redux)
Mother’s Day is a little tricky around here; it makes me incredibly happy to celebrate motherhood with my family and friends, but incredibly sad, too,...
