With my birthday coming up and a nationwide black history celebration in full swing, it’s probably no surprise that February is my favorite month.
Sure, there’s the abbreviated time span and less-than-pleasant temperature range, but I find it just … Read the rest
A color-coordinated blouse, a woven straw basket and goody-filled plastic eggs: Those were the items on lists that Nia and Layla brought home from school weeks before Easter, designated to help commemorate the upcoming holiday and the arrival of … Read the rest
Considering the endless inequities facing women today — sexualized beauty standards, discrepancies in medical care costs and victimization via physical abuse and on-the-job harassment — it perplexes me that many of us continue to concentrate high levels of energy … Read the rest
It’s been years since I was wheeled out of a hospital maternity ward with a newborn in my arms, but I recall the moments as if they unfolded yesterday.
Each time, the arrival of our son and daughters filled me … Read the rest
Back in the early 1990s, Tupac Shakur revealed his social consciousness with a track called “Brenda’s Got a Baby.”
When a peer shrugs off the news of the pregnancy by saying: “That’s not our problem, that’s up to Brenda’s family,” … Read the rest
