MyBrownBaby is irreverent. Funny. Full of posts that make you think. Maybe even say, “Amen,” because it reminds you of what’s going on behind your closed door, with your family. It’s a place where African American parents and parents of black children—and... moreMyBrownBaby is irreverent. Funny. Full of posts that make you think. Maybe even say, “Amen,” because it reminds you of what’s going on behind your closed door, with your family. It’s a place where African American parents and parents of black children—and their opinions—matter, and are heard, respected, and revered. For their poignancy and strength. For their intelligence and authenticity
I was a young entertainment reporter at the Daily News when I interviewed Cedric the Entertainer along with his comedic co-horts Bernie Mac, Steve Harvey and D. L. Hughley. They were taking a celebratory media lap for their uber-successful comedy tour, “The Kings of Comedy,” and celebrating the release of [...]
By SHAWN TAYLOR “How do you raise a child in safety in a world that is getting more violent by the day?” Some parents recently explored the question as their children played. Three mothers and a father were already engaged in (what seemed to me) an act of bullying hysteria [...]
I am an Affirmative Action baby. Long Island Newsday paid my college tuition, in part, because of the color of my skin. It was my chocolate hue, too, that opened wide the door for my first job out of college, as a reporter for The Associated Press. I tell you [...]
By DEESHA PHILYAW A friend recently sent me an MSNBC article about Trayvon Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, and the trial of George Zimmerman which began last week. As the co-founder of co-parenting101.org and the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce [...]
I am told that I was left on the stoop of an orphanage, down in Lower Manhattan somewhere—a baby and a blanket on hard concrete. Still, I was wanted. My father, a son whose fractured relationship with his own dad could have forever shaped—and ruined—his parenting journey, knew this one [...]
BY NICK CHILES The gossip monster that parades as the entertainment media has managed to achieve a distinction that I didn’t think possible: they have managed to make me feel sorry for rapper Kanye West. Based on reporting by Star newspaper, we are to believe that Kanye has been cavorting [...]
By SHAWN TAYLOR I am fairly certain that much of my family became Jehovah’s Witnesses because they didn’t want to celebrate holidays. Instead of just admitting that the adults couldn’t afford presents for us children, they told us the lack of birthday, Christmas, and other gifts were against God’s will. [...]
It’s the pageantry of it all that I remember most. Weeks before Easter, my mother would hit Macy’s, searching through the sale rack for the perfect dress and hat and white gloves and slip and patent leather purse and shoes for me—blue, soft green, maybe pink if the fabric wasn’t [...]
Just over a year ago, I stumbled across a press conference announcement by a couple that was trying to draw attention to both the shooting death of their son, Trayvon Martin, and the refusal by investigators to so much as arrest, let alone charge and bring to trial, neighborhood watchman [...]
By DR. IVOR HORN For Christmas this year our 13-year-old daughter asked us to help her find babysitting jobs. I ask you, “What teenager ASKS for work?” This shouldn’t have come as a surprise to us. She started inquiring when she was 12 years old. We dodged the conversation by [...]
