Our pastors and ministers need to step up and steer clear of these sex scandals that have plagued the church lately...

I wouldn’t necessarily classify myself as a Beyonce fan. She puts on a heck of a performance and I like a song here and there, but I’m generally drawn to music with a lot of depth...

There are seven wonders of the world, but let the media tell it, there’s a new one to behold: the mystifying singledom of so many Black women...

I’ve never really believed that interracial adoption was a good thing. It’s always been, to me, one of those situations born of necessity...

Way before my 12-year-old was a big ol’, tall-as-I-am thang, she was an adorable baby who happened to bear the burden of the slowest-growing stuff you've ever seen sprout from somebody's scalp...

Once upon a time, there lived a young girl with big dreams and even bigger glasses, who fed into the concept that one day, her own personal Prince Charming would drop into her life, and they would buy a house and have babies and live happily ever after...

When I was younger, even when I was pregnant, I couldn’t for the life of me understand why women broke out in tears when they delivered their babies...

Thank you, Jesus. I survived another Fourth of July weekend in the ‘hood...

Just because you throw some red and green stripes on a bag don’t make it Gucci. Just because you toss some syrup on a slice of bread don’t make it French toast. Just because Herman Cain looks like he’d fit right in at the family reunion don’t make him a brother. 


If you’re born Black, you’re already pitted against an indeterminate number of challenges. If you’re born Black and female, multiply them a few times and add a couple more...