The conversation around mental health in the Black community is evolving, particularly when it comes to children. With over 25 years of experience working with young patients, Dr. Kimberly ...

Here are some things to consider when discussing the topic with your non-Black child. There is a fine line between appreciating another culture and appropriating it. When it comes to hairstyles ...

Parents of Black Children an advocacy organization emphasizes that understanding the educational system’s colonial roots is crucial for effective advocacy. The organization points out that these ...

Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather, who are both white, were arrested after two of their five children were found locked up in a shed outside their Sissonville home, near Charleston, in October ...

A West Virginia couple accused of treating their adopted Black children as “slaves” are on trial this week to face charges of child abuse and human trafficking. Donald Lantz and Jeanne ...

Many of Altadena’s Black families passed their houses down from parents to children, and hoped they would be the foundation of generational wealth. All of that made for a community where, ...

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Robert’s time as a lorry driver taught him how to hide his victim’s bodies ROBERT Black was a serial child murderer and rapist, who is known to have killed four girls but continues to be ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

Remember, too, that every trial, invasive or not, is completely voluntary. You or your child can decide to withdraw from a clinical trial at any time, and for any reason. Your child’s health—mental, ...

X A Chicago judge has been reassigned and ordered to undergo implicit bias training after she accidentally sent a meme of a racist "joke" showing a Black child wearing an ankle monitor to a ...