Getting My Daughter Her First Bra: Girl Lux Is Pitch Perfect
My baby isn't a baby anymore. Buying my daughter her first bra made that crystal clear. This new tween bra made the trek easier—for sure.
This Is Why You Should Never Spank Your Daughter
Be aware: hitting girls raises a chemical in their bodies that puts them at sexual risk, studies show.
School Dress Codes Unfairly Target Black Girls & I’m Tired Of It
School dress codes are the bane of a school girl's existence—especially if you're a Black girl with curves.
Watering the Flower: How I Help My Daughter Embrace Her Beauty
My daughter is blossoming into a beautiful young woman. She just doesn’t know it yet. So I tell her so.
A Young Black Girl Chosen To Be the Subject of a Book, All Grown Up
Her story is important. It is hers, and she owned it proudly.
A Black Beauty Maven Wonders If She’s Hitched To an Industry That Goes Against Her Motherly Teachings
Sometimes the beauty world contradicts what self-described "Beauty Gladiator" Jodi Patterson preaches at home.
Building Beauty-full Daughters: Teaching Girls of Color to Love Their Entire Selves
When people tell her 4-year-old daughter she's "pretty," this mom feels the urge to flesh out the compliment to assure her baby she's much more than a pretty face.
Sheryl Underwood Calls Afro Hair ‘Nasty,’ Wonders Why Mothers Save Baby’s First Clippings
Snapping on “The Talk” co-host Sheryl Underwood’s Dollar Store doll baby wigs or her remarkably uncanny resemblance to Arsenio Hall’s drag queen character in that...
Ava Duvernay’s ‘The Door’: A Miu Miu Short Film That Displays Black Women In All Our Beauty
I make no claims to being a fashionista. I mean, I clean up nice and after years of fending off attacks against my black girl...
Black Girl Punished For Wearing Brown Leggings: the Policing Of Our Daughters’ Bodies In School
An 11-year-old black honors student in California was booted out of class for wearing… wait for it… leggings. Not just any old leggings, mind you....
