Black fathers

The Buzz: Coronavirus variants are getting new names, The World Health Organization has announced, in a move to avoid stigma that they are to be named after letters of the Greek alphabet instead of their place of first discovery,  The WHO said: “While they have their advantages, these scientific names can be difficult to say […]

If you click on the hashtag #raisingqueens, thousands of photos of Black fathers with their Black daughters will come up. If you keep scrolling, other hashtags like #strongblackfathers will pique your interest. Despite limited depictions of Black father and daughter relationships in mainstream media, social media has a trove of powerful imagery that shows the […]

Over the past couple of years, The term “black girl magic” has become commonplace in our vocabulary for good reason. Black girls and women have been showing extraordinary skill in everything from academics to athletics. Even in entertainment, Black women and girls are breaking out of traditional, stereotypical roles to ones that show complex characters with […]

When everyone online went #TeacherBae crazy, I dismissed it as another silly meme. I didn’t even bother to read the story. Then you guys kept arguing and blocking each other and all that hot messiness made me curious. I went to the web thinking I was going to see a woman in front of a […]

There’s two schools of thought when it comes to Nintendo’s latest smash Pokémon Go. People either love it or hate it and although I’ve been thoroughly entertained by the game so far, I understand both sides. But this isn’t about why Pokémon Go is dumb or awesome. Today we’re going to talk about how to […]

When news broke about rapper Waka Flocka Flame sharing a video of his niece locked in a dog cage, I knew that social media would be outraged. Personally, I thought it was funny as f***. I’m not Ms. Cleo, but I bet I can tell you how it all went down. Little mama kept messing […]

A lot of arguments between parents  stem from disputes over money, the division of household responsibilities and the idea of the guy hanging out too…

My editor brought up an interesting topic that is discussed ad nauseam but rarely resolved. It’s a problem that many single mothers have that leads…

I’m learning that the most interesting time of a person’s life second to the teenage years, are the toddler years. I’d never thought about it…

Nostalgia is one of those things that keeps us older folks from going bat crazy when the rest of the world seems to want to…