6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (681+ words) School has begun in Minnesota. For many families, this is a season of excitement. For Black rural families, it is also a season of hyper vigilance. Since that commentary was published, the urgency has only deepened. In July, I was…...

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1+ week, 5+ day ago   (454+ words) Throughout Black. Single. Mother. Lemieux details her personal experience being and being raised by a Black single mother. She separates her personal experiences into two sections, “Longing” and “Belonging”, before the collection shifts to other Black single mothers’ experiences, interviews…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (293+ words) image: In a recent study of Black parents and their teens, Shardé McNeil Smith, a professor of human development and family studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, explored how parents’ levels of appropriated racism affected racial-ethnic socialization messages that…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (225+ words) Black parents who experienced higher levels of appropriated racial oppression - defined as shaping one's behavior and self-concept around dominant cultural norms of whiteness - were less likely to transmit positive, culturally protective messages that affirmed racial pride and self-worth to their…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1172+ words) In 1910, Gwynn's Island, off the coast of Gloucester, VA, in Matthews County, was home to about 135 black residents – 17 percent of the island's population. "I had heard about it since I was a little girl," Maria Giddens, an ancestor of the…...