In his new book, Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System, professor and activist Alan Dettlaff argues that the US child welfare system is inextricably tied to its racist past, from slavery to the modern day—and must be abolished to be fixed.
A conversation with author and professor Alan Dettlaff about his new book, Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System, the US child welfare system, and a vision for a system that protects children without breaking apart families.
As movements imagine new worlds, it’s important to name the things we leave behind. In this way, our culture can start healing from past traumas.
In Boston, a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual community is organizing to preserve Dorchester as a neighborhood that provides affordable housing for all.
How can White men support social justice? A growing number of affinity groups offer new resources to catalyze more effective antiracism work.
How can family foundations and donors stop perpetuating inequities within the communities and causes they serve? By centering community leadership, wisdom, and voices in grantmaking. This approach to giving is known as participatory philanthropy. As two practitioners of participatory philanthropy who have worked with a wide range of foundations, we know that some private philanthropies,
The backlash was swift. When West Virginia University, the largest public land-grant (extension) university in the state, announced in August it was ending 169 faculty positions and cutting 32 majors—including plans to discontinue the entire world languages program—students, staff, alumni, and others moved into action. Hundreds of students showed up to protests, many donning red
The following is the transcript of our interview with author, advocate, and movement leader Heather McTeer Toney. We discussed her latest book Before the Streetlights Come On, the intersections of racial justice and climate justice, and the power and presence of Black women in the movement. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
In the wake of what is often described as the “racial reckoning” that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020, US philanthropic institutions pledged vast sums of money toward racial justice and racial equity—as much as $4 billion or more, according to an analysis by the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity. But there is
Click here to learn more about this new series from Edge Studios, and follow @npquarterly and @offthehookshorts on social to see episodes of “Off the Hook” as they are released. (Saphia sits in front of a white wall.) SAPHIA: Hi, my name is Saphia Suarez. I’m the creator of Off the Hook, and I just wanted to come
What would it look like for rural civic infrastructure to thrive, not just survive, in the 21st century? This is a question animating much of our work in East Texas, where a local family foundation (T.L.L. Temple) and a community development financial institution (Communities Unlimited) are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural
This is the second article in NPQ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD). Authors in this series highlight stories of comprehensive community development in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across the United States. When people think