18-year old Nolan Wells’ death in Mississippi has raised again the importance of ‘the talk’ that Black parents have with their children. But what do white parents tell their kids about race?
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Black children who go missing are often labeled as runaways, which excludes them from the Amber Alert system.
Young Black people are over-represented through the whole justice system, from their interactions with the police to their presence in prisons.
The Brown v. Board of Education case, which resulted in the Supreme Court outlawing school segregation, originally started in Clarendon County, South Carolina.
My profiling experience left me questioning how I am viewed in wider society.
The evidence is growing that experiencing both systemic and everyday race-based discrimination may lead some Black Americans to become depressed and think about suicide.
A researcher recreates a famous 1940s doll experiment to probe how Black preschool children view race and themselves – and finds not much has changed.
Although school boards have yet to find a systemic way to combat anti-Black racism, educators are in a unique position to correct these injustices.
At the turn of the 20th century, with few children’s books featuring Black characters, one young editor implored his peers to ‘Let us make the world know that we are living.’
Social work education, policy and practice is lacking when it comes to understanding and caring for black children’s skin and hair.
Before 1980, the experiences of black children in care were hidden from history.
What place do police officers have in UK schools?
Recent tragedies have shown the depth of racism in society. As we ask ourselves how to move forward, we also need to ask how these events affect African-American children through vicarious racism.
Black kids get suspended in preschool for minor offenses. A 2016 report shows 45 percent of preschool boys were suspended, once or more.
A recent study concluded that children who watched Sesame Street in the 1970s fared better in school. Why?
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Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education, Teacher Education, and Childhood Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Instructor, Division of Academic General Pediatrics, Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program; Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Education and Health Law Clinic, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Writing and Liberal Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design
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Vice President of Early Education and Workforce Development, Texas A&M University-Commerce
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
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Lecturer in Social Work, University of Bradford
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Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities, University of Manchester
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Professor of Leadership, Counselor Education, Human and Organizational Development; Executive director, Call Me MISTER, Clemson University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Kingston University
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Researcher in Black education, policy, and community development, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Youth Justice, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi