African American parenting

Willow Smith’s Shaved Head: Why Does This Child’s Short Haircuts Get Black Folk So Riled Up?

Willow Smith debuted a freshly shaven head last week—a new down-to-the-scalp hairdo that, of course, elicited all kinds of uproar across the internets, as the...

– Feb 7, 2012

Willow Smith & The Stripper Pole: Kids Will Be Kids—Even Will And Jada’s

I mean, I get Willow Smith rocking the curly, hot pink-laced powdered wig that her musical mentor, Nicki Minaj, gave her after the two worked...

– Jan 12, 2012

Score Two In The Black Girl Battle Against Lazy Beauty Standards!

Near impossible.I’m pretty sure I hadn’t even wiped the sonogram goop off my belly before I rushed to Benjamin Moore, Babies ‘R Us, and ABC...

– Oct 22, 2010

That New, New: Willow Smith, The Hair Whip, and Coloring Outside the Lines

About this, I’m really clear: If Lila, my littlest one, were left to her own devices (and her parents had more time, cash, connections and...

– Sep 17, 2010
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