Of all the outlandish provisions within California’s outlandish reparations plan, none feels more craven — or cruel — than the demand to exempt black fathers from paying child support for ...

The research is clear—according to a 2021 study published in the American Journal of Public Health, Black children had higher Child Protective Services (CPS) encounters than that of other ...

A 10-year-old Black child in Mississippi who urinated in public in August was sentenced Tuesday in youth court to three months’ probation, a decision the child’s attorney says was influenced ...

The theory of “blind removals” was that if caseworkers and supervisors didn’t know the child was Black, they would be less likely to make a racially biased decision. Nonwhite children are ...

At just six years old, Ruby became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Federal marshals had to escort Ruby, as she was faced with ...

This has particularly serious implications when the child is Black and therefore more likely to end up in the child welfare system. A recent report by federal researchers provides the fullest ...