Adding insult to injury, we’re professionally trained and rewarded to make White people the default referent group that Blacks are measured against. In doing so, we acquire a tendency to center White people in our work.

Privileged eyes constantly remove their gaze from root causes of social and economic despair to myopically perceive positive family adaptations as dysfunction or as causing poverty.

Regression models are mathematically most stable if the referent group is the largest within the sample you are drawing from. For that reason, in the United States, data sources that make note of racial categories are generally presented sequentially, with “White,” the largest single racial group, listed first.

First popularized in the 1960s by anthropologist Oscar Lewis, culture of poverty theories argued that low-income people share inherent characteristics and values that keep them impoverished.

now know that my existence is a manifestation of Black women’s resistance against the criminalization of poverty and the devaluing of Black lives. For

for poverty we didn’t create.

A lack of opportunities for Black men and women demands innovation, creativity, and more options for family—not fewer.

negative reinforcement campaign that attempts to punish Black people

“What are the benefits to living in a Black-majority city?” and, “Why do so many of us choose to stay in them?”