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Niecy Nash Cleans House
by Angela Scott

If you're looking for tips on clearing the clutter in your 9-year-old's closet, tune in to Clean House on the Style Network. There, you'll find the vibrant Niecy Nash giving her spiel on the ins and outs of creating a clutter-free home. That's right. Niecy knows a thing or two about teaching home training basics as the wife of a pastor (husband Don Nash ministers at New Life in Christ Bible Fellowship in Culver City) and mother of three (Dominic, Donielle and Dia), ages 14, 11 and 6 respectively. Not only is Niecy dumping out the grime on Clean House, she can also be seen fighting crime as Officer Raineesha Williams on Comedy Central's cop spoof, "Reno 911!". >Read article.



Hill Harper Wants to Help Today's Youth

by Angela Scott

In this Q&A with CelebratingChildren.com's Parenting Solo columnist Angela Scott, actor and activist Hill Harper discusses why every black parent should read and recommend Hill's book, Letters To A Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny:

CelebratingChildren.com: Many people recognize your work in movies such as Lackawanna Blues as well as the TV crime investigative drama "CSI: NY", but not many realize the work you do outside of acting.

Hill Harper: I've been involved in the Big Brothers organization in Los Angeles for several years.
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Column: My Final Frontier

Dear Womanist In The House:

Thanks for your essay about being an African-American, work-at-home, womanist http://www.celebratingchildren.com/article_kh_womanist_in_the_house.htm. I get it and respect your decision. I'm glad that you made a point of saying you don't judge other people's choices. But, where's the voice of Black women who don't have the financial or temperamental ability to stay at home?

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Thanks for contacting me. Let me begin by saying you're not voiceless. >more


Top Teen Chef’s Recipe for Backyard Entertaining

Adreena Winnfield knows a little something about cooking. As winner of The Art Institutes Best Teen Chef 2005 scholarship competition, Winnfield beat out competitors from all over the U.S. and Canada to take home the prestigious title and a full scholarship worth $35,000 to study culinary arts. >more


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