Motherhood looks good on Jill Scott! The singer covers the May issue of Ebony Magazine, opening up about life as a single mother and her relationship with her beautiful 3 year-old son, Jett. The issue celebrates motherhood, so it’s fitting that Jill is candid in the cover story about “the triumphs and challenges of being…
Feminism is back, guys! (Of course, if you ask the editors at Ms. Magazine and the women of NOW, it never left.) But thanks to Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In” and its advice that women need to stop pussyfooting around and get to running stuff everyone’s talking about feminism like it’s 1969. Case in point: New York Magazine has a feature called “The…
My grandfather was the pastor of a church. In that church, there was a deacon, Brother Wynn. One Saturday each month, the church would do food giveaways to families in need. How it worked was the families would come, sit through a sermon on God’s glory, or if it was an election year, a speech…
Several women have suffered from the grief and trauma of having a miscarriage, but it’s rarely discussed in the public arena. That’s why folks are applauding Beyoncé for sharing the story of her own miscarriage and how it impacted her in her upcoming HBO documentary, “Life Is But A Dream.” The superstar discusses her miscarriage…
Tyra Banks has built an empire from her various enterprises in modeling, television and even literature. She is a hugely successful business mogul, regularly topping Forbes’ list of primetime’s top-earning women. She also has an extraordinary education to boot; the former supermodel graduated from Harvard Business School this year. But she feels there is one…
Latham Thomas is not only the founder of Mama Glow, a holistic lifestyle company that focuses on nurturing and supporting women throughout pregnancy; she’s also a mom herself. Thomas’s smooth pregnancy with her son inspired her to create a platform for pre- and postnatal guidance. “My pregnancy was a really amazing process and I attribute that to…
Motherhood ain’t for everybody. But there are those of us who have always desired to one day answer to the call of “Mommy” and raise a child or two. And you never think that time could get in the way of those dreams but sometimes, it does. At least it has for me. I looked…
Despite the rising costs of prenatal and labor and delivery care, a new infographic FacetheFactsUSA.org illustrates a marked increase in maternal mortality–defined as death during pregnancy, within 42 days of terminating a pregnancy, or from any treatment or complication of pregnancy–over the past 25 years. To date, Greece has the lowest maternal mortality rate at…
In 2012, it’s hard to believe that becoming a housewife and stay-at-home mom was once an acceptable, even expected, aspiration for young women. Post 1970s conventions and progress have taught us that work outside the home, for which we earn independent wages and with which we can support ourselves, should be preferable to housework, 24-7…
Years ago, long before Zoe Kravitz became an actress and indie rock empress, I read a profile on her dad that described one of his favorite parenting practices. He’d take pre-teen Zoe to an island, they’d live in a hut or trailer for a while, and she’d be barefoot, muddy, and unplugged from all technology….
