Uché Blackstock didn’t plan to become a radical physician, but the pain and death she witnessed at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn radicalized her.
Dana L. Suskind, surgeon and “self-trained social scientist,” balances an incredible amount of empathy and urgency in her second book, Parent Nation.
In flipping the script, Banks writes that birth is immense, that birth has existential, moral and theological significance at least as great as death.
Along with this history of metastatic industrial development, staggering pollution, relentless corruption and breathtakingly bad policy, Rector presents the other side of the coin: the fierce, courageous, dogged commitment of activists pushing back decade after decade, demanding cleaner air, better working conditions and water that wouldn’t poison their children.
At the start of the pandemic, Anya Kamenetz realized her apartment had a built-in alarm system. It went off at...
Jaffe doesn’t blame parents of privilege—a category to which she belongs—for the terrible circumstances of other children’s lives, but she does make clear that we all have a responsibility and a role in creating and perpetuating that disparity.
Essential Labor is both a memoir and a call to action. The caregiving crisis the US finds itself in now will outlast the pandemic and we must figure out ways to care for each other.
Every year, air pollution-related causes kill more than half a million children before their fifth birthdays, and an even greater number are afflicted by lasting damage to their developing brains and lungs.
Book Review: Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
Majora Carter’s Community Manifesto Starts with Real Estate
Gentrification is a subject that has launched a million listserv arguments. It often starts with complaints from longtime residents of...
“Every family has multiple balls in the air,” Kelly Fradin writes in Advanced Parenting. “Some are bouncy balls and if you drop them the show will go on. But others are glass and require more attention to keep intact.”
Why Invest in Public Campaigns to Promote Marriage When What’s Needed Are Effective Policies?
New Two Parent Privilege Book Strikes a Nerve
Prior to becoming a mother, Emily Ford worked as a personal fitness trainer in the Salt Lake City, Utah area....
“Empathy in All Its Aspects”
First Book's Paula Willey on Age-Appropriate Books to Build Kindness and Compassion
Paula Willey is a librarian’s librarian. Co-author of The Passive Programming Playbook: 101 Ways to Get Library Customers off the...