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 ...

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 ...

Black children ages 10 to 14 drown in swimming pools at rates 7.6 times higher than white children, according to the CDC. “Past racial discrimination casts a very long shadow, ...

To what lengths should we go to reduce racial disparities in the child welfare system? In 2021 the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to require the Department of Children and Family ...

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 ...

In New York State, the number of fatalities from child maltreatment went from 69 in 2019 to 105 in 2020. There were 51,000 reports of child maltreatment concerning more than 66,000 children. Just ...

As Dettlaff told ESSENCE, “Since the earliest origins of the modern ‘child welfare’ system, Black children have been disproportionately separated from their families.

In 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Now she shares the lessons she learned with future generations.