By Amy L. Alexander
In “About Our Children,” a two hour-long town hall style talk program broadcast Sunday, September 20, we beheld an unusually calm discussion of a perpetually hot topic—the welter of social, economic, moral, and educational challenges affecting parents and children in America. Broadcast on MSNBC, a cable network infamous for high-volume political rhetoric, “About Our Children” boasted an impressive pedigree.

By Chinyere Osuala
Just Food, a non-profit organization that advocates a just and sustainable food system in New York City, hosted a site visit on Tuesday to the Farm at Miller’s Crossing in Hudson, N.Y. to bring staff, volunteers, and clients of inner-city emergency food organizations in touch with the farms that provide them with fresh fruits and vegetables, weekly, through Just Food’s Fresh Food For All Program.

By Jackie Jones
The blogosphere is where black achievement can be touted and become the engine that drives mainstream media to take notice and young African Americans hold the key to it in the palm of their collective hand.

By Eisa Ulen
Yesterday, as I walked with my husband and son to the park, I heard a sister from across the busy Brooklyn street. “Come on!” she yelled and flipped her ponytail. “Sh**!” Two things I knew before even looking her way: 1) This sister was a sister. 2) She was cursing her own child. I looked her way, and in one glance confirmed both assumptions were correct.

By Rev. Susan Newman
On Easter Monday, April 13, when many children were enjoying a holiday from school and still eating chocolate bunnies, 11 year old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Springfield, Massachusetts, was being eulogized.

By Asha Bandele
As the drama between music superstars Chris Brown and Rihanna unfolds in the headlines, I remember the year 2006 and some boy-on-girl violence that hit uncomfortably close to home.

By  Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd
Our new book, Is That Your Child?: Mothers Talk About Rearing Biracial Children, is based on interviews with black and white mothers of biracial children. The book opens with our interview with each other, charts the challenges and rewards of rearing biracial children, and profiles black and white mothers with distinctive biracial parenting experiences. It concludes with suggestions for positive parenting strategies, which are relevant to all varieties of biracial combinations.

By The Editors
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now TV/radio news writes of two Pennsylvania judges who pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities who profited from the imprisonment of some 2,000 children

By TaRessa Stovall:
Like many others, I was intoxicated by the magical moment when the election of Barack Obama was announced. The first coherent thought that emerged from the joyous whirlwind of my mind was: What does my son, Calvin, think of this? What is he feeling? What will this mean for his future?
And then: Dear [...]

The news about many of the tens of thousands of children growing up in post-Katrina Louisiana continues to be daunting: lingering health problems; gaps in education that are hard or impossible to fill; unstable living situations; and behavioral issues arising from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders.
Educators and doctors say that the key to giving these children a [...]