Twitter exploded today with images of two very different baby sling packages, both manufactured by Baby K’Tan. In one image, a Black mother is featured…

Being a mentor is a full time job. It is often very hard to know if you are doing well at it.  I work with kids everyday in my organization, Hip-Hop Chess Federation. Today one of the kids I mentor was talking to me about his life goals (we will call him Marcus).  Sometimes Marcus jokes […]

There is an incredible buzz around the birth Jay Z and Beyonce’s baby that I don’t think I have ever seen before. People keep asking: What does Blue Ivy mean? What kind of father will Jay Z be? Will Beyonce be able to stop dancing and acting long enough to be a good mother? How […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death of a viable fetus. Dr. Steven Brigham, of Voorhees, N.J., was taken into custody Wednesday […]

NEW YORK (AP) — John Legend will no longer be a bachelor: He’s engaged. The singer’s publicist said Tuesday that Legend proposed to his girlfriend, model Chrissy Teigen, recently in the Maldives. No more details are being provided. Legend has won nine Grammys and released four albums. Teigen was named “rookie of the year” in […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert De Niro is a father again. SEE ALSO: The Disappearing Black Journalist Stan Rosenfield, the 68-year-old actor’s spokesman, says De Niro and his 56-year-old wife, Grace Hightower, welcomed a healthy 7-pound, 2-ounce baby girl named Helen Grace Hightower through a surrogate mother. She is the couple’s second child. Their son, […]