{Dr. Ivor Is In} Generation XXL: Talking Childhood Obesity With Black Moms
By DR. IVOR HORN No matter how much I smile, no matter how lighthearted my words, when I bring up weight to the parents of...
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...
{Dr. Ivor Is In} Summer Skincare For Black Children: It May Not Crack, But It WILL Burn
By DR. IVOR HORN So I got a tweet recently with a link to this YouTube video, “Dear 16-year-old Me,” a piece created by the...
Family Hides Gender of Newborn For Protection From Stereotypes? Must Be Nice.
By Jennifer Johnson If you missed it, a Canadian family recently named their new baby “Storm” and announced to the world that they’ve opted not to...
MyBrownBaby Fresh: What We’re Reading & Watching (Beside William and Kate’s Wedding)
Oh, who doesn't love a beautiful wedding? The dress, the pageantry, the fairytale details all of it is perfectly delicious, I admit. I raise my...
A Half-Breed Is a Dog: What Not To Call My Biracial Child
By Jennifer Johnson I strolled around the grocery store with my daughter’s car seat wedged in the shopping cart. Normally I’d carry her in my...
{Bringing Up Boogie} The Place From Which A Mother’s Love Flows
By Bassey Ikpi I love my son. That seems like a really base thing to say. Mothers are supposed to love their children. If you...
Black Women Speak Up! Tell Congress To Stay Out Of Our Wombs
Make no mistake about it: Planned Parenthood is under attack. With not even two months under its belt, the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed...
Halle Berry’s “One Drop” Dilemma: This Mom Says She Won’t Make Her Biracial Baby Choose
Halle Berry thinks Biracial children need to choose whether they're Black or white. This mom thinks otherwise.
