Uh oh. Cue the Mommy Wars.

Things are jumping off again thanks to Time magazine’s controversial new cover depicting an attractive 26-year-old California mom breastfeeding her 3-year-old son. A headline blares “Are you mom enough?” The kid is dressed in camouflage pants and is standing on a chair to reach his mother’s exposed breast. What’s causing jaws to drop is that the little boy looks more than old enough to drink from a sippy cup. Heck, I can almost picture him going to the refrigerator and pouring his own drink.

The cover, which is accompanied by other eyebrow- raising several other photos of breast-feeding moms in similar poses, goes with a story about attachment parenting. The practice advocates wearing children in slings, co-sleeping, natural birth and homeschooling among other ways of keeping children close. It’s a concept popularized by pediatrician Dr. Bill Sears, author of “The Baby Book.”

Since Sears’ work is the focus on the piece, some readers are crying foul, accusing Time magazine of intentionally stirring up controversy by using the photo of Jamie Lynne Grumet’s breastfeeding a child at an age most kids have been weaned by.

Some readers are saying it borders on exploitation, which doesn’t sound all that far off. All I know is, that kid is going to catch it when he gets to school.”

Read the full article, here.

Do you believe that black men don’t want their women to lose weight? I sure don’t.  

But that’s what Alice Randall asserts in a recent op-ed in the New York Times about African American women and obesity.  The writer in residence at Vanderbilt University writes, “How many middle-aged white women fear their husbands will find them less attractive if their weight drops to less than 200 pounds? I have yet to meet one. But I know many black women whose sane, handsome, successful husbands worry when their women start losing weight. My lawyer husband is one.”

Wait. There’s more. Randall also writes, “Another friend, a woman of color who is a tenured professor, told me that her husband, also a tenured professor and of color, begged her not to lose ’the sugar down below’ when she embarked on a weight-loss program.”

Who’s she kidding?  Yeah, a lot of black men prefer a so-called "thick" silhouette but there’s a big difference between that and being morbidly obese.  But I stray from what got me reading Randall’s column in the first place and that was another claim of hers which is, “many black women are fat because we want to be.” 

Seriously? Black women, four out of five of whom are overweight or obese, deliberately put themselves at risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and other health ailments because they want to?That doesn't make sense. No sane person consciously wants to be overweight. Just last night I had a sad conversation with a black woman considering a second bariatric surgery because her weight is spiraling out of control again. She, like a lot of Americans is overweight for a number of complex reasons. It's not because she thinks it's cute or somehow acceptable.

Philadelphians outraged by the Trayvon Martin case will rally Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Love Park. Organizers are asking that protestors show up wearing hoodies as a show of support for the unarmed black teenager gunned down by a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain.

“Enough is enough. This was just blatant discrimination,” said Chris Norris, a lead organizer. “It’s blatant racism. I can’t believe it happened. I feel like I’m in a dream.”

 (Organizers also are putting together a Million Hoodie March in support of Martin for tomorrow beginning at 30th Street Station and heading to Love Park. Event takes place around 7 p.m.)

Martin, was killed Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., in a gated community after buying candy at a convenience store. He was unarmed and was wearing a sweat shirt with a head covering which is called a hoodie when he was confronted by George Zimmerman. Zimmerman claims the teen attacked him and that he shot Martin in self-defense. The watch captain, who had been warned by a police dispatcher not to follow Martin, hasn’t been charged.

The killing touched a long-frayed racial nerve as word spread around the country on social media. Norris, who is active in the Occupy Philadelphia movement, told me that news about Martin’s killing reignited painful memories of his being a 20-year-old black man living in Austin, Tex., and being routinely followed by police. Norris was so unsettled that he began making YouTube videos to raise awareness about it and he also got involved with a Facebook group to discuss it. He and some friends decided to get together and the idea of a mass rally in Philadelphia grew from there.

“We’re asking people to bring their hoodies and to wear their hoodies. We’ll light candles,” said Norris, chief executive of the Philly-based company Techbook Online. “This is a peaceful, spiritual vigil.”

On Wednesday, New Yorkers gathered for a rally called the Million Hoodie March in memory of Martin. Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, told the crowd: "This is not a black and white thing - this is about a right or wrong thing."

Even as organizers spread the word about Monday’s gathering in Center City, there’s controversy brewing about that as I couldn’t help but notice on Facebook. “I’m, like, are you kidding me?” said Sixx King, who has been posting on Facebook about what he perceives as a double standard in terms of how the case is being viewed. King, who’s the director of a new film called “Mothers of No Tomorrow,” said people are so worked up about what happened to Martin, that they aren't focused on larger issues such as that of urban crime. "Wearing a hoodie in support of Trayvon Martin is so disrespectful," he wrote.

What do you think? And are you planning to attend Monday’s rally?

For  more info about Monday's rally log onto https://www.facebook.com/philly4trayvon

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Anyone who looks more like Oscar-nominated actress Viola Davis than Beyonce, doesn’t need me to tell them that colorism is alive and well.

It’s interesting that on the same day that news broke that the  U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about skin-lightening creams containing mercury, that I learned that a new documentary on the subject  of dark-skinned women is scheduled for a special screening Saturday at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby. 

The 10-minute trailer of “Dark Girls” is painful to watch as woman after woman tell of how having dark skin made them feel unattractive and less than their honey-hued counterparts. To be honest, I had to stop looking especially after a long-forgotten memory popped into my head about how ignorant people used to try to call themselves complimenting my gorgeous sister by saying, “You’re pretty for a dark-skinned girl.” This happened once on the campus of Howard University, of all places.

“It’s always been a problem in every culture when the darker you are, the you are. The lighter you are, the better you are,” said co-producer D.Channsin Berry. “It’s in the Asian community. It’s in the Latino community. It’s in the Jewish community. It’s everywhere.”

  The 73-minute film, which debuted in September at the Toronto Film Festival, has been making the rounds of various large urban cities – Oakland, Calif., Nashville, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.    The local screening starts at 7 p.m. and will be followed by a question and answer session with Berry.   For more information, log onto http://officialdarkgirlsmovie.com/.

The documentary duo’s next movie will be on the plight of women with lighter complexions and will be called “Yellow Brick Road.”

Wedding bells will soon be ringing for South Philly's Amber Rose. Her publicist has confirmed that the ex-girlfriend of Kanye West is officially engaged to rapper Wiz Khalifa. Earlier this year, I interviewed Rose when she was in town promoting her new single. If you haven't read the article already, check out what she had to say about her love affair with Khalifa and also about her nemesis Kim Kardashian. 

It's not every day that you get to tell the object of your celebrity crush how much you loved him as a kid. I did back in 2009 when Davy Jones of the British rock group, The Monkees was a Daily News Sexy Single.

Jones, who entered himself in the annual contest after spotting an ad in the paper and sending in a photo, had a horse farm in Beavertown, Pa. When I asked him why he’d entered, the twice-divorced Jones told me that he was a little loney out on the farm located about an hour from Harrisburg and that he wanted companionship. “It's all a bit of fun, the whole idea is,” he told me.

Unfortunately for his local fans who had been hoping for an introduction, he married shortly after being featured in the Daily News.

When I asked him what made him move so fast, he said he had dated actress/flamenco dancer Jessica Pacheco, then 31, for two and a half years before they drifted apart mainly because of their careers. Then, one day, he’d been working on his farm and daydreaming of her when, "I said to myself, 'This is ridiculous. What am I doing building a wall here?' "

He hopped on a plane and went to her home where he proposed. After the couple reunited, they were engaged for just three weeks before marrying in a small ceremony at her parents' home in Miami. During their exchange of vows, Jones sang "All of Me" to his bride and invited their guests to join in. The couple honeymooned in Bali. He missed our annual Sexy Single party because he was just getting back from his honeymoon.

"I don't want to be alone any more," he told me afterwards. "I don't want to be on my own. It's great having been a teen idol, but when the curtain comes down, all I had before I met her was myself."
In addition to Jessica, he is survived by four adult daughters from previous marriages.
He was 66 and died in Florida from an apparent heart attack, according to TMZ.

Read Jenice's full Q&A, here.

You can still attempt to register for the Broad Street Run via a lottery which will take place from Feb. 16 to Feb. 24. An additional 2,500 spots soon will be made available via lottery. To participate in that, log onto www.broadstreetrun.com tomorrow. This is a first for the annual rite of spring. Another thing to keep in mind, is that in years past various charities such as the American Cancer Society, have made additional registrations available for runners who participate in their programs.

In case you’re just tuning in, registration for this year’s Broad Street Run sold out earlier today.
“The race sold old in record time. It sold out in five hours,” Ruth Stoolman, an Independence Blue Cross spokeswoman told me. “This was beyond our wildest expectations.”

Registration for the annual 10-mile run down Broad Street opened this morning and by early afternoon it was completed. This year, 33,000 runners get race numbers - that’s up 3,000 from last year when the number of participants was capped at 30,000. It’s mind boggling when you consider that back when the race first began back in 1980, there were only 1,500 participants. I asked Race Director Jim Marino why registrations needed to be capped and he said it's because of safety issues such as medical staffing.

Marino had a busy day, not only fielding complaints by runners frustrated by slowness of the site but hearing from people desperate for a race bib. "I've gotten calls from (places) you can't imagine," he said. "I've had people I haven't heard from in 10 years reaching out to me today."

I've heard some unbeweavable tales in my day but what happened to actress Gabrielle Union at an airport earlier this week topped just about everything.

Airport security gave her a patdown after her  "weave got 'flagged.' "

That's right. That long, gorgeous, flowing mane of hers got her detained at the airport, the New York Daily News reported today.

"No lie. TSA required a hair patdown," she added. "If human hair and thread sets off the body scanner, a lot of folks just ended up on the 'watch list.' "

It all ended well though. Union was eventually allowed to catch her flight, hair tracks and all.

"Hopefully my weave doesn't cause turbulence," she joked on Twitter. "It's clearly very powerful."

Humph, glad she could laugh about it. A lot of women get real upset when you start messing around in their hair. 

Calling all the single ladies in Philly.

Men's Health's new poll says Philly is not the place to go to find eligible women. In fact, the magazine ranked us 35th.

They must be nuts.

I can understand their ranking Washington, D.C., as No. 1 in terms of being happy hunting grounds for the fellas, but how did we land at number 35? I mean, c'mon. Even Jersey City, which came in at No. 32, got a higher ranking than we did.

When I first started reading about this survey, I did a typical woman thing and thought, "Hey, what's wrong with us?"But the more I thought about it, I realized the problem isn't us - it's crappy polls like this one. Don't you agree?