8+ hour, 10+ min ago  (126+ words) uatl.com What if every mom had the support she deserved? Jaycina Almond is making it happen. When Jaycina Almond became a mom at 20, she remembers wondering how she'd afford diapers for her daughter. That experience inspired her to create…...

13+ hour, 38+ min ago  (1323+ words) Jaycina Almond was 20 years old, newly pregnant and paying attention. She’d grown up in Lexington, Kentucky, where Atlanta was the kind of place you drove to on weekends and came back from with something to talk about. Finally, she decided…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1120+ words) Nichelle Wilson was holding her 2-month-old daughter when her ex-husband slammed her head into a wall in 2016. The impact cracked the drywall, injured Wilson’s left knee and left the baby with a fractured skull. Wilson was frantic to find help,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (704+ words) Jess Hilarious says her new memoir isn’t really about comedy. It’s about learning how to co-parent, let go of resentment and build a healthy family after a turbulent relationship. In “‘Til Death Do We Parent,” the comedian and “The Breakfast…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (858+ words) As we approach Mother’s Day, it’s a good time to consider the stories that shape how we understand motherhood — especially those too often overlooked. For more than a century, Black writers — from Harriet Jacobs’ “Incidents in the Life of a…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (729+ words) Carl Joe Williams remembers when he realized art’s power to educate communities and celebrate cultural identities. As a student at Atlanta College of Art in the early 1990s (now Savannah College of Art and Design’s Midtown campus), he visited the High…...

6+ mon, 14+ hour ago  (1377+ words) When Andre Moore was in second grade, living at Fort Dix in New Jersey, he was transfixed by “Sesame Street” and the adventures of Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and Bert & Ernie. After learning that the show was made nearby,…...