Check out the audio from yesterday's Cocoa Mode show with Shawna Renee on Sirius\XM Channel 169. We talked about the release of our new film, You Saved Me and how communities across the country are using Black Marriage Day to change the perception of marriage in the African American community. (Keep checking back, we'll be uploading You Saved Me coverage all day.) … [Read more...]
They Talking About Us
BMWK Wins 2010 About.com Favorite Parenting Blog
Thanks to all of you we've just snagged the 2010 About.com Reader's Choice Award for Favorite Parenting Blog. This award means a lot to us because it's the first one we've won that doesn't have the word "Black" in front of it. When it's all said and done we'd like to go down as the best marriage\parenting blog on the Net period. We've moved into the mainstream and won with a … [Read more...]
Please Vote For Us (BMWK)- One Click Is All It Takes!
We've been notified that we're finalist for About.com's favorite parenting blog award. Please take a second to head over and drop a vote in the ballot box. When you go to the site all you have to do is click the link and that's it. We appreciate it! https://familyinternet.about.com/od/resources/ss/readerschoice10-voting_2.htm … [Read more...]
It’s Official! Check Out Our Essence.com Blog
Show us some love and check out our new spot on Essence.com where we'll be blogging a few times per week. Do us a favor and leave a comment if you could. We want to show them how the BMWK family gets down! (On the Essence blog you must click on the post's title to enter a comment) https://blogs.essence.com/black_and_married_with_kids/. Our first post is abut finding your … [Read more...]
Lamar Talks The Web Business With Black Web 2.0
I had the opportunity to do a great interview with the folks over at Black Web 2.0. They have a feature called Blueprint where they highlight different folks in the Indie Web Business and this week for their second installment they picked me. It really was an honor and there were great questions about the growth of Black and Married With Kids.com. For the bloggers we also … [Read more...]
VIDEO: BMWK’s Lamar and Ronnie Tyler on DC’s Fox 5 Morning News
On Monday November16th Lamar and Ronnie Tyler, founders of Black and Married With Kids.com and Producers of the documentary Happily Ever After: A Positive Image of Black Marriage appeared on Fox 5 Morning News (FMN) talking about the website and the film. You can check out the interview below. … [Read more...]
Lamar and Ronnie Make The Essence “Power Couples On the Move” List
Yesterday we were floored to be blessed by such a humbling experience. We were included in an amazing list of power couples on the move that are making it happen. We were actually the only couple that weren't Black A-Listers so to say we were surprised would be an understatement. Only 23 couples were selected and you can check us out at #16. Thank you BMWK family for riding … [Read more...]
Audio: CocoaMode Interview on XM Radio Talking About This Weekend’s Black Family Web Conference
Yesterday I did an interview on XM Radio on The Power Channel 169 with Shawna Ranee of CocoaMode. LaShanda Henry of the BlackMomsClub.com joined me and we talked about our upcoming three day conference on the black family that kicks off tonight. Click here for registration info. Audio of the interview is below. [audio:https://184.168.89.220/Audio/CocoaMode061109.mp3] … [Read more...]
BMWK Featured on Essence.com Today
Please take a moment to check out a commentary piece I did for Essence.com in regards to President Obama's first 100 days and what it means to the black family. Click here for commentary While you're there you can also see another excerpt from the upcoming documentary that we are still shooting called: Happily Ever After. The doc will focus marriage and parenting in the … [Read more...]
BMWK Releases First Internet Trailer for Upcoming Documentary: Happily Ever After
From the creators of the award winning website Black and Married With Kids.com comes a ground breaking documentary set to challenge negative stereotypes surrounding marriage and family in the black community. Release date: Summer 2009 Get Ready!!! … [Read more...]
Thanks To You We Won!!!
We asked and you answered the call. Thanks to you, all of our faithful readers we won the Glam Network Award in the Family category. We want to take this opportunity again to tell you how much we really appreciate all of you, our readers and our contributors. Thank you for helping us to make BMWK what it is today and please stay tuned for big announcements and changes in the … [Read more...]
Black Family Blog Network Gets Featured On Two Sites!
The "Black Family Blog Network" that we launched to extend our mission of promoting marriages, parenting and positive images of both has been featured on two of our favorite sites. Check out the links below and don't be shy about leaving a comment or browsing either site. Both have great content and are our favorites for a reason: Clutch:Support Our Family: Lamar and Ronnie … [Read more...]
BMWK Founders Launch “Black Family Blog Network”
Ronnie and myself (Lamar) would like to introduce you to our newest ventures and a logical extension of Black and Married With Kids.com, "The Black Family Blog Network". The first of it's kind the Black Family Blog Network is a collection of sites that support the idea that successful black families do exist and challenge old stereotypes concerning marriage and family in the … [Read more...]
Black Love Lives: BMWK Featured on Essence.com!!!
Check out our interview on Essence.com. We're excited about it and hope that you are too. Please show us some love by leaving a comment on the Essence page. Perhaps if we get a large enough response we can convince them to take it to the print edition :-). Again we want to thank all of our readers as we keep the ball rolling on what has been an enjoyable ride up until this … [Read more...]
TheDad Gets Featured on “BlackTwitterati”
TheDad was featured yesterday on www.BlackTwitterati.com a site that features the black folks that are making it happen on Twitter. We appreciate the love. Please check out the article and their site when you get a chance by clicking here... … [Read more...]