About Our Children Feature On Parents Overcoming

This was the opening segment to this morning’s post. Three parents who’ve overcome substance abuse, domestic violence and depression are featured. This was a very powerful piece worth watching. Healthy parents = healthy children.

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UK Domestic Violence Ad Jumps the Shark

Keira Knightly filmed this anti-violence advert presumably to decry assaults on women. While the intention was noble I’m just not feeling it. Whoever the creative director was has clearly not had any involvement with actual domestic violence survivors – or just doesn’t get it. This advert just seems like a glamorized version of violence to [...]

Oprah Show On Dating Violence

Oprah’s Thursday episode she asked Tyra BanksĀ to be her co-host as they discussed dating violence amongst teens. Is it being petty to point out that with such a serious discussion someone really should have talked to Tyra about her how distracting her hair (too many blonde highlights with the wig) and makeup (she looked [...]

About this Chris Brown/Rihanna "Reunion" – BIG FAIL!

This is not a time to be playing Donnie Hathaway/Roberta Flack’s song “Back Together Again”. You know I was going to write a long-winded but poignant post about domestic violence, how the lives of Black women and girls are in constant peril and about how (some) Black people will make all kinds of excuses [...]