Twitter exploded today with images of two very different baby sling packages, both manufactured by Baby K’Tan. In one image, a Black mother is featured…
Many of us were still on a post-Inaugural high even after King Day. Took me a minute to snap out of the euphoria. President Barack…
Tempestt Bledsoe returns to network television this fall on NBC in a new family show “Guys With Kids” and she’s excited about returning to the small screen in a program that portrays “a positive black family”. Read more here:
Being a mentor is a full time job. It is often very hard to know if you are doing well at it. I work with kids everyday in my organization, Hip-Hop Chess Federation. Today one of the kids I mentor was talking to me about his life goals (we will call him Marcus). Sometimes Marcus jokes […]
There is an incredible buzz around the birth Jay Z and Beyonce’s baby that I don’t think I have ever seen before. People keep asking: What does Blue Ivy mean? What kind of father will Jay Z be? Will Beyonce be able to stop dancing and acting long enough to be a good mother? How […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Check-ups during pregnancy tend to focus around the waist. But there’s growing debate about which mothers-to-be should have a gland in their neck tested, too. SEE ALSO: Ron Paul’s Fundamentalist Christian Roots Numerous studies since 1999 have found that an underactive thyroid can raise a woman’s risk of miscarriage, premature birth, or […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death of a viable fetus. Dr. Steven Brigham, of Voorhees, N.J., was taken into custody Wednesday […]
NEW YORK (AP) — John Legend will no longer be a bachelor: He’s engaged. The singer’s publicist said Tuesday that Legend proposed to his girlfriend, model Chrissy Teigen, recently in the Maldives. No more details are being provided. Legend has won nine Grammys and released four albums. Teigen was named “rookie of the year” in […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert De Niro is a father again. SEE ALSO: The Disappearing Black Journalist Stan Rosenfield, the 68-year-old actor’s spokesman, says De Niro and his 56-year-old wife, Grace Hightower, welcomed a healthy 7-pound, 2-ounce baby girl named Helen Grace Hightower through a surrogate mother. She is the couple’s second child. Their son, […]
A short film titled “Strange Thing About The Johnsons,” is raising eyebrows over its extremely controversial plot which involves molestation and homosexuality within an African-American family.
More than 45 years after the Department of Labor issued “The Moynihan Report,” a study which examined the breakdown of the Black family, sociologist Herbert Gans revisited the report, offering his own critique in the Fall 2011 issue of the Du Bois Review. See also: Jay-Z Talks Kanye West Collaboration And Baby With Beyonce See also: […]
Too many times in family communities across the country— those who have become comparatively financially successful — are unknowingly volunteered to become the “universal provider” within their family circle. I should stress the word “comparatively” because many times those who are MORE successful within a family are also having their own financial problems. But because […]
