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keke wyatt

R&B Diva KeKe Wyatt Pens a Beautiful Open Letter to her Children

KeKe Wyatt, star of TVOne’s “R&B Divas,” is a songstress, wife and mother of six. Wyatt allegedly stabbed her ex-husband and confronts women gazing at her current beau, leading some viewers to question the “Nothing in this World” singer’s sanity. However, it is impossible to deny how much Wyatt loves her children. Motherhood suits Wyatt…

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father's day

Do We Really Need a Single Parent Holiday?

It happens every Mother’s and Father’s Day. Black Twitter inevitably starts praising parents who played both mother and father roles, and verbally chastising those who abandoned their responsibilities. “Happy Mother’s Day” shout-outs go to fathers who had to shoulder the responsibility of raising their children alone, and vice versa for single mothers and absent Dads….

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opinion

Sex Talk And The Babies: Time To Get Real

That talk with your daughter about how she got here? Yeah, not the most anticipated of discussions. But the chat must happen, and it generally does, through three prisms. One is the abstinence-only approach. Discourage any sexual behavior short of marriage and espouse the virtue of patience for that “right one.” There would be noble…

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parenting

Advice To A Parent Of A Biracial Child

The Root recently started a new advice column called “Race Manners”, and the first question it answered was submitted by a white woman with a biracial child: “I’m a Caucasian woman with a biracial child (her father is black). I live in a predominantly white community. Why is it that whenever people discover that I…

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parenting

Facebook Video of Daughters Beat for Twerking Goes Viral

Where is the line between discipline and abuse? For many, it’s hard to determine when a parent’s disciplinary actions cross the line. One video is calling that debate into question. It was posted on Facebook yesterday and already has over 9,000 shares, 1,800 likes and 270 comments. It shows daughters being beaten by their father…