In 2021, he joined a Black fathers’ support group and met a few other dads eager to discuss their unique challenges. They started their own podcast in 2023 called AutisHIM, a place where Black dads ...

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 ...

Surveys have shown that time out has been employed by many parents incorrectly. Goodwin says it shouldn’t be used in a harsh ...

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.

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 ...

NOTE CONTENTS: This story contains a term that refers to a racial slur. A video showing a Minnesota woman at a playground last week openly admitting to using a racist slur against a Black child ...

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

61 percent of Black children abused by biological parents; 656,000 victims of child abuse/neglect nationwide; This article was originally published by the Defender Network.

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.