Efforts at colorblindness and antiracism have not been very effective in addressing racial tensions in the United States. Colorblindness ignores the realities of race and the history of injustice. On the other hand, antiracism centers […]
The Black Foster Youth Handbook 50+ Lessons I Learned to Successfully Age-Out of Foster Care and Holistically Heal By Angela Quijada-Banks When Angela Quijada-Banks entered foster care at age 16, she was looking for a […]
By Christie Renick As protests against police brutality have blossomed into a new chapter of America’s civil rights movement this year, child welfare experts say it is never too early in a child’s life to […]
By Mariama J. Lockington Farrar Straus Giroux Book for Young Readers, 2019, ISBN: 978-0374308049, 336 pages, $16.99 Written by Mariama J. Lockington, a black woman who was adopted by a white family, “For Black Girls […]
While I do not always want to or like it, as a transracially adopted person, I think and talk about differences of race, class and culture a lot. I feel compelled to engage in thoughtful […]
By Dan Fogelman NBC, 2017, Tuesdays at 8/9 central time Last week launched the new season of This Is Us, an NBC drama series that showcases the lives of three children — Kate, Kevin and […]
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) came about because the federal government and states had a long history of treating Native American parents as unfit just by their being Indian. (America’s indigenous people refer to […]
by Kelly A. Biernat At the park the other day, a young woman commented on how beautiful my brown-skinned, curly-haired daughter is. Proud mom that I am, I thanked her graciously and was open to […]
by Sunny Jo Mirror, mirror on the wall . . . I used to look at myself in the mirror and see her — my mother, my unknown Korean mother, my biological mother. Or, at […]
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