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The digital universe is full of viral videos of adults beating children. I view them warily, alert for triggers that catapult me back into the days of being viciously beaten by my adoptive mother, the wife of a Pentecostal preacher … Continue reading →

                                 What do you do when you and your spouse clash over whether to spank the children…and the conflict is rooted in black and white? … Continue reading →

“There is no place for black children in this world,” intellectual giant and civil rights doyen W.E.B. Du Bois lamented in 1920. His hyperbolic use of “this world” conveys the mean-spiritedness of mainstream life to the first generations of free … Continue reading →

                                                 My heart breaks at recent news reports of a 7-year-old boy, Roderick “RJ” Arrington Jr. being … Continue reading →

                                                           First, there’s the headline: Paul Adams, Black Belt, Allegedly Beat 6-Year-Old … Continue reading →

                                                       Recently, I met with a group of adult adoptees who were torn about … Continue reading →

It doesn’t take much to set them off.  Adults, too often Black, are joining a growing chorus on social media and everywhere else to sing the praises of beating children—too often Black—for one infraction or another. Most recently, a viral … Continue reading →