Suni and I went on a special Mother’s Day road trip with her grandma and brother in 2022. This is us at Sweet Potatoes Kitchen in Savannah, Georgia. | MICHELLE BRELAND Having a daughter has been a treasure like no other. My sweet Suni is so much like me in some ways and so beautifully …
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Having been a journalist for many years, I’ve covered story after story about companies profiting off of black people but also discriminating against them. Sometimes, I’ve felt hurt, other times outraged, and still too often, numb, and growing to expect ill-treatment. I would love to say that as a result, I make sure not to …
T.I. is one of those rappers I really want to root for, but then he keeps talking. The father and husband who often takes to Instagram to advocate for Black people who have been disenfranchised is often the same man making light of cheating and publicly being disrespectful to his wife. Well, he took it …
Georgia’s heavily criticized heartbeat law has been stalled by a federal judge. Read more to find out what that means for you.
Georgia Rep. Erica Thomas’ name has been all up and through media headlines for the past week after a white shopper at a Publix grocery store in a suburb of Atlanta cursed at her in front of her young child for having too many items in the express lane. Thomas, who is pregnant, said in …
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I’m 30-years-old. That means for more than half of my life pregnancy was something to avoid.
My mom told me so. Preachers echoed that sentiment, and I won’t even mention the movies and TV shows, which tended to treat teen pregnancy like heroin addiction.
Model Bella Thorne recently posted nude photos of herself on social media after she said someone tried to extort her with them. The incident made her a topic of discussion on The View, and she wasn’t exactly happy with Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg’s take on the issue.
Self-care doesn’t have to mean hours of planning and big bucks on childcare. Learn strategies for how to take care of yourself even when you’re busy.
Before I was in a committed relationship, before I was a mother; life meant something very different. I was a senior at the University of Missouri, and I was on my way to being the first in my family to graduate from college.
Few people talk about how often motherhood changes your mental state. Four moms talk candidly about ways to handle mom guilt, exhaustion and depression.