Catherine Gigante-Brown

BCBs are loud and proud and refuse to go down easy. And quietly. We have things to say. We have things to teach. We still have life to live. And damn it, we are and we will. With one breast. With no breasts. With reconstruction surgery.

Having someone steal my cancer history and co-opt it for their first-person Facebook blog is unbelievably violating. Somehow, it feels almost as invasive as my mastectomy.

Food can be more than nourishing; it can be healing.

Who says feminists don't love alpha males and cooking?

Why, when I'm cool with being a salt-and-pepper chick, does it so clearly unnerve others?

"Remember, this isn’t just happening to you, it’s happening to moms everywhere. It’s not your fault — "

TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) has been around for at least five centuries –– there’s got to be something to it.

The heartbreaking saga of a 14-year-old Black prostitute who was murdered in cold blood by her (maybe) pimp on Christmas Eve in 1900 Savannah.

I saw my present mother-in-law in a whole new light the first time she held my newborn son.

" Sure enough, the doorbell rang one early June day and there she was: curvy, seductive body, smooth black skin, bright blue eyes."