For too long, the dialogue around breastfeeding has been a deeply privileged one that erases and ignores Black women. Racial inequality in the U.S. is so entrenched, so debilitating, that even Black babies—even, sometimes, within their first hours of life—are impacted by it. Consider, for a moment, these chilling facts: The infant mortality rate for Black […]
Husband, being the father of a Black child will not be easy, because by nature (and history), it forces us to confront the fact that the world we thought we knew is not the world we know at all. Husband, for the last few years, we’ve been very firm in our decision to not have […]
He’s reminding me how to be myself before people told me I wasn’t good enough. I am changing. I can feel it. I just left my 7-month-old’s second swimming lesson. I believe it is important for children to learn how to swim at a young age. We blow bubbles, we work on going underwater, we […]
I know, just by virtue of being black, that if anything should happen to me, there are plenty of people ready to defend my would-be killer. A few days ago, yet another one of Freddie Gray’s killers got away with his murder. But when I think of Freddie Gray, for some reason, I don’t first […]
Black women are constantly scrutinized for their parenting. And attacking Blue Ivy’s hair is a way of attacking Beyonce. A topic of conversation I never found engaging was “natural hair vs. permed hair.” Seriously, who has the audacity to tell someone their hair is wrong? But the main reason I intentionally don’t engage in this discourse […]
