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 […]
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…
Being a parent forces you to notice things in your surroundings that may have never before crossed your mind. One of them is the dreaded…
As the holiday shopping window closes, options are becoming scarce but that doesn’t mean that all hope is lost. There are still a lot of…
I am tired, angry, and discouraged with the number of deaths by gun violence over the last 2-3 years. As a mother with two sons,…
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I took a trip down south to hang out with the in-laws. It was a great chance to get away from…
Could you raise a transgender child? One mother speaks about raising her daughter…as a boy. “One day I asked Penelope, “What’s the matter, love? Why are…
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…
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.…
A Georgia couple whose own children tried to kill them two weeks ago says they love and forgive their sons. Yvonne and Zachery Ervin say…
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.…
