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“Marriage Is For White People, Real Blacks Don’t Get Married”

December 31, 2009
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I came across a great post on a young brothers blog and wanted to share it with my BMWK family. He’s a student at Morehouse in Atlanta and details a conversation he was having with a fellow student recently. During the conversation his friend expressed interest in finding a great woman in the future and having [...]

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Website Wednesday: Soul Portrait

December 30, 2009
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The Black Renaissance has returned and it’s on the web via Soul Portrait! Our longtime readers are probably no stranger to friend of the blog “Mocha Dad” who is the man behind this wonderful site. MD has pulled together a place where poetry, images, essays and sounds all live and breathe. Check it out, you [...]

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VIDEO: Will and Jada Smith Interview President Obama

December 21, 2009
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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Interview with Barack Obama from 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Concert

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Ohio Church Daycare Accused of Giving Kids Pills To Sleep at Nap Time

December 18, 2009
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From Cincinnati.com: SPRINGFIELD TWP. – A church day-care center is under investigation and facing a class-action lawsuit after allegations surfaced that workers gave children an over-the-counter drug in candy to make them nap. At issue is whether workers gave children melatonin, a sleep supplement, to help them sleep during the day-care center’s naptime, according to [...]

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Kelly Ripa Gives You Great Marriage Advice

December 18, 2009
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In what we’re sure will be her first mention here on Black and Married With Kids we wanted to bring you some great advice that Kelly Ripa gave Redbook in a recent interview. This is good stuff. On dealing with Mommy guilt: “Initially, we would never leave the kids alone with a babysitter. But then Mark would [...]

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Essence.com: 7 Year Old’s Mother Speaks Out on Confronting the Teacher Who Cut Off Her Daughter’s Braided Hair

December 17, 2009
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Essence.com had an exclusive interview with the mother of the child we talked about yesterday. Her daughter was the 7 year old student who had a braid cut off by the teacher because she kept playing with her hair. To see our original article with video of the story including the girl and her mom [...]

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Does The New Duggar Baby Make 19 Kids And Too Many?

December 16, 2009
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by Aja Dorsey Jackson Ahhh the Duggars. No other reality television family has the ability to make me both adore them and simultaneously think that they are 21 flavors of crazy. In case you don’t watch the show, Duggar parents Jim Bob and Michelle gave birth last week to a baby girl 3 months early, bringing [...]

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Milwaukee Teacher Cuts Off 7 Year Old Student’s Braid

December 15, 2009
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From CNN: Milwaukee school leaders are looking into why teacher cut child’s hair as punishment. WISN’s Nick Bohr has the story. The teacher was apparently frustrated because the 7 year old kept playing in her hair. Have you heard of anything like this before? If this was your child what would you have done? What [...]

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Essence.com: Chris Brown and R. Kelly: The Social Dilemma Of Tolerating Violence Against Women For Musical Appreciation

December 10, 2009
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by Michaela angela Davis (Essence.com) I remember being mad about “Mad At Miles,” Pearl Cleage’s brave and brilliant account of Miles Davis’s brutalities towards women. I wish it was simple, that I was simply mad at Miles for whooping Cicely Tyson’s behind, our Cicely our queen, no I was mad at the conflict and the [...]

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SADE: She’s Baaaaaack!!! New Song: Soldier of Love

December 8, 2009
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Check out Sade’s new song- Soldier of Love. This is the lead single from her new album that’s set to be released on Feb. 8, 2010. Let us know what you think. Is this classic Sade? Has she lost a step? Will you purchase the album? Let us know!

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Disney Releases ‘The Princess and the Frog’ Soundtrack (Live Stream Inside)

December 8, 2009
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We know that a lot of our readers are in full countdown mode for Disney’s newest arrival: The Princess and the Frog so when we received this in our email inbox we thought we would share: Walt Disney Pictures’ highly anticipated animated masterpiece, ‘The Princess and the Frog’ will have its official wide release this [...]

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