Rickey Smiley Morning Show

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 […]

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

Everyone reading this should now have at least three or four invitations to the homegoing ceremony for Harambee the silverback gorilla. Poor Harambee got his wig pushed back after a three-year-old boy fell into his cage. Now everybody is pointing fingers and assigning blame. Honestly, I’m waiting on the report of how much weed Harambee smoked […]

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

Now that the holiday shopping rush is over, I’d like to open up the discussion to a topic that I find really interesting. Remember that…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

Science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, has been talked about a lot over the last couple of years. This is mostly because the U.S.…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

 When kids are young, they like to bounce around like pinballs by grade school some start to settle into a sedentary lifestyle. There are video games…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

My editor has been asking me since I first started writing this column to talk about what it’s like being a young, Black stay-at-home dad.…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

The kids are back in school and before you know it, department stores will beat us all in the head with their in-store holiday playlists.…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

A general rule for dealing with a toddler is to not laugh when they do something bad, even if your sides are about to split…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

Babies touch themselves. I had no idea that was even a thing until my son started and when it first happened, I brushed it off…