It’s already tough sledding for New Mexico children and families in the state’s fractured foster care and child welfare systems. Those challenges...
The Congressional Black Caucus releases a troubling report quantifying and discussing the recent sharp rise in suicide rates among black youth, a...
A new research report from the Urban Institute develops a more effective metric for determining the extent of school segregation within the...
This summer, stories of now-deceased wealthy financier Jeffery Epstein’s sexual exploitations rocked the country. The girls Epstein exploited were mostly young, poor,...
The Urban Institute takes a comprehensive look at the effect of the growth of charter schools on racial segregation in school systems....
The Economic Policy Institute shows how toxic stress in a child's life, which is disproportionately experienced by African American children, can disrupt...
The Center for American Progress provides a policy framework seeking to eliminate the stark and troubling racial disparities in maternal and infant...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention uses data from three different national collections to provide a summary of the current...
G.I.R.L.S. N Da Hood is exploring gender and incarceration in the Bronx. We focused on understanding womyn’s experiences with arrest, court, lockup,...
EdBuild breaks down the troubling numbers behind the disparity in funding between predominantly white and predominantly nonwhite school districts around the nation.
This new report from the Human Rights Campaign presents data and analysis from a survey of more than 1,600 black and African...
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold on Dec. 5 a ruling that would declare the Indian Child Welfare Act...
Researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, Council on Black Health and Salud America! recently released this new report...
Recent media stories from the U.S.-Mexico border about immigration have largely missed the daily struggle of families and children in U.S. communities...
Medical sociologist Eric Wright’s work has taken him into parks, abandoned buildings, shelters and other places off the beaten path.
The American Council on Education outlines the effective methods and lessons learned in the confrontation of college campus racial issues by using...
Bobby Cagle, a former foster child and caseworker, is set to take over as head of Los Angeles Department of Children and...
The Juvenile Law Center conducted research in all 50 states to analyze the financial burden imposed on youth and families involved in...
The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) report and data for the 2013-2014 school year has been released by the U.S. Dept. of...
This new report commission by the U.S. Government Accountability Office discusses data concerning the economic and racial make-up of K-12 students in...