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racial justice

NAACP and Children’s Advocates Submit Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against Minnesota Child Welfare System

8/23/2021

Minnesota Legislature Again Fails to Pass Bill Defending Black Families

Sylvia A. Harvey

A bill defending Black families against racist practices in the child welfare system has failed to pass for a third time in the Minnesota Legislature.

Color-blind Removal Approach Gains National Interest

4/1/2021

Color-Blind Ambition

Jeremy Loudenback

Driven by evidence that child welfare decision-makers judge parents of color more harshly and are more likely to remove their children, there is growing interest in a program that proposes to weed out racial bias when social workers weighing allegations of abuse and neglect decide whether to remove a child from their parents.

8/31/2020

Groups Fighting for Black Lives Highlight Juvenile Justice, Child Welfare Systems

Michael Fitzgerald

Images broadcast during the Black National Convention held last Friday, organized by the Movement for Black Lives. (lower right: sign language interpreter)
Dozens of Black-led advocacy groups nationwide are calling for an end to the criminalization of youth younger than age 23, and a disruption of systems that wrench newborn infants from their mothers’ arms shortly after they’ve given birth.

7/1/2020

In a Victory for Youth Advocates, Los Angeles Cuts School Police Budget by 36%

Jeremy Loudenback

Despite a bitterly divided school board, the Los Angeles Unified School District voted on Tuesday to strip $25 million from its school police department, after mounting protests have highlighted the experiences of Black students on campus.

6/9/2020

Publisher’s Note: Silence Can be Complicity in Violence Against Black Families

Opinion

Daniel Heimpel

It didn’t take George Floyd’s killing at the hands of the police for me to recognize that I have been complicit in state-executed violence against black families. But it did take his murder and the protests that have roiled the nation since to compel me to articulate it, which is shameful.

Implicit bias color blinding New York

4/8/2019

To Eliminate Racial Bias, Child Welfare Breakthrough Tells us to Try Colorblindness

Michael Fitzgerald

This story was published in partnership with the magazine Washington Monthly.   A few times a month, in an unmarked white office building on Long Island, a group of Nassau County government employees discuss which children they should separate from their parents.

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