ONE TOOTH DOWN, 19 TO GO!
By the time my boy was three months old he had four teeth in his big ol' baby head. My wife and I were surprised by his advanced teeth-growing skills, but that was just a [...]
IF ROSIE WERE BLACK…
Would Barbara Walters have fired her a long time ago? A white friend of mine asked me that question yesterday. To her I replied, "What do you think?"
JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS!
I remember those words well, made famous by Nancy Reagan. We chanted the phrase at grade-school assemblies, and as prompted by Public Service Announcements during Saturday morning cartoons. It was a movement of epic proportions. [...]
IT’S JUST BUSINESS
Either my little guy knows he's the financially unfortunate offspring of a non-profit operations director, and a social worker, or we're raising the next Earl Graves (a.k.a. Publisher and Board Chairman of Black Enterprise magazine).... [...]
NO SNITCHING: IT’S THE CODE OF THE STREETS
A few days ago one of my regular readers, Gyamfua (what's up girl?!) emailed me and asked my opinion on the "no snitching" phenomenon in the black community. After thinking about it for a while, [...]
TV RULES!
For months I've been whispering to my boss, an educator, that I thought watching TV was helping my son become an even better reader than he already is. (I say that I was "whispering" because [...]