K. Danielle Edwards

This morning, as I got ready for work and had the local news humming in the background as I usually do, I heard a report about drowning deaths in our city, with a national spin attached. According to the representative speaking on behalf of a local YMCA location, most parents whose children drown had no…

Becoming a mother in and of itself was not enough for me to realize how important it was to love myself ” as my self. Instead, that epiphany didn’t come to be until I realized that I would be parenting children who happened to be daughters and reflected upon my own development as such. As…

I happen to live in Middle Tennessee, where we’re dealing with the greatest natural disaster to hit the area since records have been kept. Some are estimating that the torrential rains we had over the weekend resulted in flooding that this area might not have seen for 500 or 1,000 years. Comparatively, we have fared…

April 19, 2010, I was able to catch most of The Oprah Show, on which the mother, father and brother of Oscar-winning actress, comedienne and talk show host Monique appeared. They sat down to peel back the layers of the sexual abuse and molestation she, on more than one occasion (on the Oprah Show, in…

If you’re a black woman, those odds are you’ve heard some incarnation before of this statement: “Black women are too hard, too tough, too difficult.” It may have been part of the lead-in to the punch line of a joke. It might have been words shouted out in anger with an ex. It could have…

A new study says that women who live with a mate – even if they don’t have a child, but especially if they do – are more likely than their single, solo habitating and childless peers to pack on the pounds. Those of us who have been bitten by the love bug knows how it…

As a Black Married Momma, I represent the Anti-Statistic these days. Wanna see how? Ten years ago, nearly 70 percent of African-American children were born to unmarried black women. We’re now on the precipice of 2010, and the percentage is likely higher today; in fact, some estimate it now trends closer to 80 percent. Nearly…

As much as I am proud and thankful to be married to a beautiful black man, I cannot help but look at many of today’s headlines on the state of black marriage and relationships with a bit of déjà vu. In this recent Washington Post story, “Wedded to the Idea of Promoting Black Marriages,” we…