Photo Credit: Graves Family Facebook After much prayer, love and support, the Graves family has good news for supporters. Kaleb “Baby Buns” is making progress.. He’s America’s baby now, as millions pray for and send well-wishes to Kaleb Arkell Graves, born prematurely at 24 weeks and one day. The son of suddenly-famous viral video couple, […]
Halle Berry may be reeling from her third divorce, but she’s still Halle Berry and she’s got to go to work. This week, she appeared at a special Black Women Of Bond event sponsored by Essence Magazineand at a benefit for the Jenesse Center, the battered women’s shelter she’s been associated with for years. When […]
“What could happen in this world if it were full of confident, talented, brilliant, bold Black girls who were positioned and prepared to make an impact?” For the answer, the team behind The Beautiful Project (TBP) turned to Black women and the power of the pen. After seeking submissions from Black women all over the world, The North […]
Each year, November is recognized as National Adoption Awareness Month. While all adoption-related issues are important, the particular focus of this month is the adoption of children currently in foster care The first major effort to promote awareness of the need for adoptive families for children in the foster care system occurred in Massachusetts. In […]
Omar Epps, actor and poet, is shining a bright light on a critical issue that he believes is responsible for increased child poverty and high incarceration rates: fatherless children. I’m glad Epps is addressing this topic in such a profound way. Epps is the Executive Producer of a bold new documentary calledDaddy Don’t Go, which […]
Dozens of Cleveland parents appeared before a judge because their kids broke the law, but they are paying the price. “This was at 11 a.m. on nine-28?,” Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Lauren Moore asks one of the parents appearing before her at the Jane Addams High School cafeteria. Eighty parents were summoned for arraignment. All […]
Some of you might have grown up hearing Dick Clark play songs on American Bandstand, asking for ratings from eager teens. If it was a song with a strong beat, it rated high. My mom would get a high mother rating because she provided a beat for my life I could “dance to.” The resounding […]
It’s hard to fathom that any child would even contemplate taking his or her own life, but that’s exactly what’s happening, according to a new study. From 2008 to 2012, the suicide rate among white boys between the ages 5 and 11 decreased from 1.96 to 1.31 per million. For Black boys? Not so much […]
Young children may see news coverage of a tragedy, or hear about it from friends at school. And when parents are confronted with questions about events such as the recent shooting deaths of children in Cleveland, how much should parents say? Cleveland Clinic pediatric psychologist Kate Eshleman offered these guidelines: 1. Answer in an honest […]
Dad, you’re an influential person in your daughter’s life. Make sure you teach her the most important things that she needs to know before she grows up. Teach your daughter to love herself. Teach your daughter to change her oil. Teach your daughter respect. See what else you can learn in this week’s Tools for the Journey: […]
More than gushing about being NFL star Russell Wilson’s girlfriend, singer Ciara Harris is focused on being a mother and has revealed that she’s already teaching her 1-year-old son, Future, to praise Jesus. “The other day we were saying, ‘Thank you, Jesus’ and I would say, ‘Say, thank you!’ And he would say, ‘Tank […]
Raising a son in these trying times is stressful. Raising an African American boy doubles that stress, if you live in poverty, that stress level triples. Grammy award-winning singer Kelly Rowland gave birth to her first son, Titan Jewell, last November and realizes and is enveloped by the responsibility for raising her son. She is […]
