asha french • EBONY

‘My Daughter’s Hair Is Not a Problem to Solve’

These days, all the kinks are curly, all the chicks are mixed, but some of us just have hair. So...

Tolerance is the latest trend in contemporary parenting. White parents are figuring out how to teach their children about race;...

Last month—Black History Month—ended with a nod to slavery, as a father brutally beat his son in a school cafeteria...

I’m not an expert on public education reform; I’m just a mother who recently visited a private school and saw,...

There are quite a few reasons this column will never be an advice column. I don’t have training in...

I intended to write a funny story, with my typical “the children will lead us” storyline about the ways that...

I spent Thanksgiving in bed watching a My Little Pony marathon. I got up at the appropriate times to feed,...

As I tucked my daughter in the other night, she told me to that a little girl had been kicking...

My daughter has chosen and been chosen by the little girl across the street. They laugh warm puffs into the...

We are standing between a witch and a White model when my daughter asked, “Why the witch scary, Mommy?” It...