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Analyzing flaws in child welfare, like the risky 'better safe than sorry' approach, and exploring systemic reforms.
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When it comes to caps and the power they wield, families deserve a second opinion. In recent years, three states, Texas, Washington, and now Georgia, have written that option into law. The other 47 could think about doing this too.
There's this phrase in child welfare circles, the removal calculus. The authors of that Michigan Law Review paper I
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The most outstanding examples of white women’s sisterly solidarity with Black women are associated with Black people’s historical struggle for education. Like Prudence Crandall and Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner literally risked her life as she sought to impart knowledge to young Black women.17 In 1851, when she initiated her project to
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Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?
Angela Davis (1943–present) spent the next four decades opposing the racial discriminators who learned to hide their intent, denouncing those who promoted end-of-racism fairytales while advocating bipartisan tough-on-crime policies and a prison-industrial complex that engineered the mass incarceration, beatings, and killings of Black people by law
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That a white woman associated with the anti-slavery movement could assume a racist posture toward a Black girl in the North reflected a major weakness in the abolitionist campaign – its failure to promote a broad anti-racist consciousness. This serious shortcoming, abundantly criticized by the Grimke sisters and others, was unfortunately carried
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for one’s children.” Norton provided no empirical evidence to substantiate her position that certain “ghetto” Blacks were deficient in any of these values.
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“achieving a better life