By Anna North — 2021
A lack of support splits parents into warring factions. Here’s what could stop the fighting.
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Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.
Even for a psychologist who studies how kids understand racism and violence, talking to her own children about it is difficult.
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“You’re always communicating about race, whether you talk about it or not.”
“I just didn’t want them to stress and not be afraid to go to school. The less they knew, the better it was.”
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Just one day after Mitch McConnell spoke out against reparations for slavery, author Ta-Nehisi Coates passionately argued in favor of them at a House hearing on the topic.
Mental health issues in people of color are often misunderstood.
Community Dharma Leader Pamela Ayo Yetunde speaks with psychotherapist Resmaa Menakem about his New York Times bestselling book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and a Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
George Floyd’s death powered a sustained and historically significant wave of activism among white Americans that will have wide-ranging political and policy implications, experts say.
In the past year and a half, Asian American Christians have been calling out the anti-Asian bias they see in their own congregations.