foster care
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Nika King on Playing First Lady Donna Martin in ‘Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot’ and Roles She’d Like to Play Next
Nika King talks ‘Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot’. She also talks about her dream role and reveals her beauty product must-have.
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Many of the 140,000 Children Who Have Lost a Caretaker to COVID-19 Are Children of Color
COVID-19 deaths leave children mourning the loss of parents or primary caregivers.
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American Idol Alum Syesha Mercado’s Son Is Finally Home
Syesha Mercado and her partner, Tyron Deener, now have both of their children back home.
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Black Children and Foster Care: On Surviving the Trauma of a System That Doesn’t Care About Keeping Families Together
Everything happened so quickly. I was laughing, talking trash and schooling kids on the basketball court in the gymnasium of my after-school program one evening when I was suddenly asked to leave the court and follow an administrator to a conference room. I was 12 years old. As we walked down the hallway, I couldn’t…
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Tracing Your Roots: Who Left My Mother in Foster Care?
After five wonderful, fun years of helping African Americans find their ancestry on The Root, we are looking forward to carrying on the work of the Tracing Your Roots column through an ongoing collaboration with AmericanAncestors.org by the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Our new column will appear on AmericanAncestors.org and the related blog Vita-Brevis.org.…
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‘I Gotta Go. And I Can’t Take Her With Me’: A Mother’s Love on This Is Us
Somehow, I didn’t realize that This Is Us had returned to my Tuesday nights. The last episode I saw was THE episode where Jack [CENSORED]. You know what? “[CENSORED]” means died. Bought the farm. Kicked the bucket. And any other euphemism for dying you can think of. Anyway, on Facebook, I saw somebody mention this past…
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This Is Us Finally Showed Us What Happened to Jack and the Episode Almost Took Me Out
SPOILER ALERT. ALL THE SPOILER ALERTS. If you’ve been watching This Is Us over the past two seasons, you know what the important question has always been: How exactly did Jack Pearson—world’s greatest father and most-of-the-time great husband—die? We found out early in season 2 that his death happened because of a house fire and…
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Fighting in Style: Fashion Helps Us Do the Right Thing
Fashion has always been a frontline method of communication for me; it’s one of the ways I telegraph my mood, my power and my place in the world. And fashion was one of the many weapons used by women during the 2018 Women’s March, where marchers were clad in everything from baby booties to jackboots.…