ROBERTS: I learned about the child-welfare system intimately when I was working on my book Killing the Black Body, which was published in 1997.At the time, I was doing research on prosecutions of ...

It’s unclear whether more Black children would be found with greater social media attention. In the Facebook items reviewed by USA TODAY, Facebook views were not a reliable predictor of success.

And yet cases involving Black children represent only 17% of the families involved with Minnesota’s child welfare system. In light of their higher fatalities, ...

A disproportionate number of Black children are removed from their homes in L.A. County. Now, the county has backed a "blind removal" pilot for study.

But Black children often struggle to get treatment, and are more likely than white kids to end up in the emergency room with asthma symptoms. Kamora Herrington, ...

2. Black children would see, hear, and feel adults celebrating their beauty, brilliance, and boisterousness. Black children are miraculous. And it is truly miraculous when Black children find ways to ...

Black children are more likely to have asthma than kids of any other race in America. They're more likely to live near polluting plants, and in rental housing with mold and other triggers, because ...

Maryland officials are seeking funding to protect and memorialize a site where over 100 unmarked graves of Black children were discovered.

The Black Child Book Fair made a return over the weekend for its fifth year of connecting independent Black authors with kids from around the city and all the kids are given a $10 voucher to ...