Blended Families: How Couples Can Face Down Baby Mama/Daddy Drama—Together
By ERIC LEGETTE The statistics don’t lie: Over 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Many of these unions produce children and once parents “go their...
What We Need To Teach Black Children In the New Millenium
By SHAWN TAYLOR I am blessed to have received a great education. Maybe it was a time in U.S. history when educating our nation’s children was...
Black Children and Disability: When Race and Stigma Collide, A Black Mom Goes Hard For Her Baby
By TARICE L.S. GRAY I entered parenthood fully embracing the idealism that can be associated with uncertainty. I believed my daughter would be different in the...
President Obama’s Morehouse Speech: Encouraging Class Of 2013 To Be Great Black Men, Fathers
I have to be honest: as much as I adore President Obama, I tend to watch his speeches in front of African Americans with baited...
Where Did Our Love Go? Anthony Hamilton’s Wife Talks Motherhood & Marriage In New Book
Editor’s Note: Tarsha Hamilton is a woman who wears many hats. She is a singer/songwriter who has traveled the world sharing her gift. Married to...
Eve’s Colorblind Babies: When Celebrity Gets In the Way Of Remembering Why Race Matters
Now I love Eve, the pitbull in a skirt-turned-“it” girl on the Hollywood scene, and her relationship with British entrepreneur and race car driver Maximillion...
A village answers ‘What does it mean to raise a Black child in the 21st century?’
By SHAWN TAYLOR I’ll get right down to it. I asked several people the following question: What does it mean to raise a Black child in...
[FATHER/HOOD] Villages Don’t Raise Children Anymore
By SHAWN TAYLOR Let’s go way back. On the 1996 De La Soul classic Stakes Is High, Posdnuos emceed “Neighborhoods are now ’hoods/’Cause nobody’s neighbors/Just animals/Surviving with...
Having Boys Can Take Months Off A Mother’s Life, Study Claims
So, it turns out that when you fall to your knees and cry out to sweet baby Jesus to be a fence before your little...
Hello. My Name Is Denene Millner and I’m A Screamer.
I don’t mean to holler and yell like a banshee when my kids get out of line. It just, like, happens. Usually, I yell after...
