Many Black children are dying by suicide, doctors say: Understanding the why -- and how to help. Some people are just learning about this "unfortunate reality,” one expert said.

About 37 percent of those children are black, even though black children only make up about 14 percent of all children in the United States. It’s harder to say how many Hispanic kids are missing.

For example, white children’s parents were three times more likely to be employed than Black children’s parents; 75% of white parents had a college degree compared to nearly 41% of Black ...

Besides their higher fatality rate, black children are almost twice as likely as white ones to be abused or neglected — a rate of 13.2 for every 100,000 kids vs. 7.4 for white kids.

Black children were six times more likely to be shot to death by the police than their White peers over a 16-year period, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics that offers ...

Besides their higher fatality rate, black children are almost twice as likely as white ones to be abused or neglected—a rate of 13.2 for every 100,000 kids vs. 7.4 for white kids.

The youngest person ever executed in the United States was a 12-year-old black girl. In 1786, Hannah Ocuish, a child of African and Native American descent, was sentenced to death in Connecticut.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Kristin Henning of Georgetown University on why Black children are more likely to be handled forcibly by police. More than a year and a half after nationwide racial ...

Black children are likelier than other kids to be members of grandfamilies, according to Generations United, a Washington, D.C.-based organization working to shape policy and programs to better ...

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

2. Black children would see, hear, and feel adults celebrating their beauty, brilliance, and boisterousness. Black children are miraculous. And it is truly miraculous when Black children find ways to ...

The Black Child Book Fair made a return over the weekend for its fifth year of connecting independent Black authors with kids from around the city and all the kids are given a $10 voucher to ...