written by Love Isn’t Enough co-editor Tami Winfrey Harris; originally published at Change.org Race in America
[Editor's note: I recently wrote this post for Change.org's Race in America site. While the focus is on adults--black women specifically--I think there is a dialog to be had about how messages about what makes a woman marriageable impact black [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough contributor Jennifer; originally published at Mixed Race America
This morning I woke up and did my daily routine: I went for a walk (1-2 miles — good for keeping me healthy esp. with the chemo treatments, and just as an f.y.i. aside, the treatments are taking their toll on me, in [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough contributor Liz Dwyer; originally published at Los Angelista’s Guide to the Pursuit of Happiness
Did you know that I have weird, frizzy, nappy hair and I shouldn’t? Apparently, since one of my parents is white, it’s supposed to be a different texture.
Last night was quite fab till I decided to slap [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough contributor Liz Dwyer; originally published at Los Angelista’s Guide to the Pursuit of Happiness
Mom blogger. There’s a whole lot of mom bloggers these days. But what is a mom blogger?
Is she a mom that writes tips about the best stroller and how to save money on groceries? Or is [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough columnist Bianca Laureano
A reader recently sent in a query seeking advice on how to work with her young son’s sudden infatuation with saying “I have a penis! Daddy has a penis! Mommy has a penis!” She is also unsure how to correct that last bit, because while she is comfortable [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough guest contributor Latoya Peterson; originally published at Racialicious
Over at Slate, Richard Thompson Ford promises to teach the readership “How To Understand “Acting White,” which immediately prompted an eyeroll from me. The article opens:
Some black students in the 1990s had a derisive name for their peers who spent a lot of [...]

written by Kristen H.; originally published on Rage Against the Minivan

I got a Stuff White People Like flip calendar for Christmas. I am enjoying it very much. This was last night’s entry:
The Daily Show/Colbert makes up a duo that is held in such high regard by white people that to criticize it would be the [...]

[This post is the first in a series on the columnist's search for a church home for her family.]
Written by Love Isn’t Enough columnist Annie Avery
For a long time my partner, who is Jewish, and I were pretty smug about not having conflicts from being an interfaith couple.
Then I got pregnant. We didn’t know the [...]

I am an African American mother of a precocious and wonderful 3-year-old girl. Recent events in her after school childcare setting have caused me to begin to really think about what kind of cultural appreciation/awareness I should be explicitly giving to her.
Liz Dwyer’s post titled: My son is the only black kid in his class…or [...]

What’s on your mind?

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitously cute kid pic. Unfortunately, we’ve drained our stockpile. You can help by sending photos of your gratuitously cute kids to team@loveisntenough.com.

written by Love Isn’t Enough guest contributor Latoya; originally published at Cocoamamas
This week, The New York Times published an op-ed referencing a famous report: The Negro Family: The Case forNational Action. In this 1965 report, Moynihan, the Asst. Sec’t of Labor, declares the deterioration of the black family as the main reason why blacks were [...]

We were all sad to read Carmen’s goodbye last month. In launching Anti-Racist Parent, now Love Isn’t Enough, Carmen did a groundbreaking thing. She created a space where parents–ALL parents–could talk about race. In this space, race wasn’t whispered about. In this space, people refused to hide behind faux colorblindness and privilege. In this space, [...]

What’s on your mind?
Here’s something to chew on–Tami’s latest post on Change.org. Do you know what is in your child’s textbooks?
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
History has shown that oft-repeated quote by Spanish philosopher George Santayana to be true. And so I wonder what horrors future generations will be doomed [...]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. This adorable shot comes from proud mom Kristen H. “I had to send a shot of our complete family! Kembe (3, just home from Haiti), Karis (1), Jafta (5), and India (3).”
Got cute kids? Send their pics to team@loveisntenough.com.

written by Love Isn’t Enough contributor Renee; originally posted at Womanist Musings

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And thank goodness these liberal, wealthy progressive people are able to take any child in need and shower them with love. And I think race should really only be examined if you’re over 40. You need to think about how [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough columnist Bianca Laureano
Ambitious high school senior Efrain Rodriguez dreams of escaping the South Bronx for an Ivy League college like Harvard or Yale. But how is his family going to afford to pay for a prestigious university when Moms has to work insane hours to put food on the table [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough columnist Liz Dwyer; originally published at Los Angelista’s Guide to the Pursuit of Happiness
When I found out I was pregnant for the first time – OK, after taking seven pregnancy tests because I was in total denial- I went through all the, “OMG! I’m gonna have a baby!” feelings most [...]