The history of racism in the United States and its ongoing impacts on children and families experiencing state-sponsored displacement are on full display in this collection edited by Dettlaff.
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.
As a man, a husband and a father, it turns out reading a book about motherhood could hardly be more valuable.
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.
When it comes to caring for and educating children in the United States, Black grandmothers have never been on the...
Children 2, 3 and 4 years old—especially boys and Black children—are being kicked out of their schools at “staggering rates,” she writes—more than three times that of K–12 school children.
Where Should Women Channel Their Ambition?
Samhita Mukhopadhyay on The Myth of Making It in a World Set Up For Women to Fail
Four years since the COVID-19 pandemic shook U.S. workplaces and its child care systems, parents continue to engage in vital...
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.
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...
In her excellent book, Who’s Raising the Kids: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children, Dr. Susan Linn brings this insidious behemoth to the foreground and underscores it with bright red lines.
Book Review: New Book on Preschool Segregation Raises Under-Examined Questions
False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers
This week brings the release of an important new book on early care and education. False Starts: The Segregated Lives...
At the start of the pandemic, Anya Kamenetz realized her apartment had a built-in alarm system. It went off at...
