Ashley Stoney

I grew up yearning for young adult movies with a black girl in a starring role. My all-time favorite movie is Crooklyn, a Spike Lee film centered around a family in a Brooklyn brownstone, following their trials and tribulations through Troy…

My VHS collection of labeled Sister, Sister episodes includes (yes, I still own them) nearly half a dozen or so fully-maxed out tape recordings of the half-hour long series that followed the lives of two twins who reconnected in junior high school.…

I read a lot of parenting media and as a former brand PR girl spent countless billable hours researching bloggers who "fit the bill" to endorse mom products (hint: a narrow grab of women). And when I was about to become a mom myself, I paid…

In a groundbreaking cover story for Vogue, Beyonce Knowles-Carter talked about her emergency c-section, in the process demystifying the many complications of birth, the messy aftermath, and the idea that a strong black woman can simply ~overcome~…

Cardi B did it her way. Shortly after her debut album hit the stratosphere, and after weeks of speculation and bump-watching, the Bronx native appeared on SNL in a ruched white Christian Siriano dress that showed her no-denying-it baby bump. And on…

After hours of debating, at 3:04 p.m. on Sunday, I uploaded three photos to Facebook for a Father’s Day shoutout, honoring my father, my partner, and my mother’s long-term boyfriend. Realizing my omission, I immediately texted my partner’s father,…

There are so many initiatives these days aimed at telling girls they are smart, brave, independent, inspiring and any other number of positive adjectives that don't reduce our girls to potentially nice, loving, and attractive homemakers and wives.…

While the February 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, seemed somehow predictable, or inevitable, the calls to action on gun regulation, led by the teenagers of Parkland, have been a heartening surprise. The teens behind the March For Our Lives…

If your social media timeline is anything like mine, you'll know just how many people are talking about Marvel Cinematic Universe's Black Panther. Whether the conversation is organically happening in your social newsfeed, or you've caught one of the…