A white West Virginia couple, Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Lantz were found guilty of locking their adopted Black children in a barn and forcing them to work "as slaves" and could face up to ...

A white West Virginia couple was sentenced to decades in prison this week for abusing some of their adopted children, who are Black, including by forcing them to perform heavy labor like "slaves." ...

Adopted Children 'Basically as Slaves' Lantz and Whitefeather, who are both white, were accused of adopting Black children aged 6-16 and subjecting them to manual labor.

In Black children, a total of 522,617 excess deaths in infancy and 689,724 during childhood occurred over the 70-year period.

According to ABC News, the saga began when Lewis was out with the family's 6- and 10-year-old children on Sunday, and an unidentified white woman approached them in a Walmart parking lot.

A white couple will serve decades in prison after being convicted of trafficking and abusing their five Black adopted children, West Virginia officials and news reports said. A woman received a ...

Based on the data, Black children and infants were found to be twice as likely to die compared to their white counterparts… and that’s not all either. “Our analyses underscore the large ...

In the 1950s, the mortality rates were 2703 and 5181 deaths per 100,000 persons for White and Black infants, respectively, for an excess mortality ratio of 1.92.

A white couple from West Virginia were collectively sentenced to 375 years in prison for horribly abusing their adoptive Black children and forcing them to work on their farm as “slaves.” ...

White Couple Who Adopted Black Children and Forced Them to Work 'as Slaves' Learns Fate Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, and Donald Lantz, 62, were found guilty of forced labor, human trafficking, and ...