>>The countdown to summer break is on. If your teen doesn’t need to work, summer break means sleeping in, hanging out by the pool, or...[Read More]
Family Issues
Articles >>BY LEANNE SIMON When my >>post about addiction and parenthood ran in March, it garnered an array of responses. Some were proud of me for...[Read More]
>>Wake County School District has not fared well in the public eye when it comes to its treatment of racial minorities. In 2010, the NAACP...[Read More]
>>I’m not breaking any news when I say that race relations in this country remain strained, tense even. For all the progress we’ve made, we...[Read More]
>>BY TAZRA MITCHELL Working Tar Heel moms are never off the clock. From laboring at the workplace all day to tucking kids in at night,...[Read More]
>>BY JANET COLM The night of Sept. 5, 1996, just as Hurricane Fran made landfall on Bald Head Island, a young woman living outside of...[Read More]
>>For many of us, politics belong on that list of topics – along with sex and religion – that you don’t talk about in polite...[Read More]
>>How likely is a child from a poor household to become a member of the middle or upper class? If you’ve been listening to the...[Read More]
>>The epitome of black motherhood for me is Claire Huxtable, the beautifully accomplished matriarch of The Cosby Show. Her no-nonsense parenting style reminded me of...[Read More]
>>BY LEANNE SIMON What do you recall about childhood? I remember the fun of after-school play-dates (though we didn’t call them that then), staying up...[Read More]