A Rutgers-Newark study reveals a little-known burden for African American mothers: Giving birth to multiple children might be linked to developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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The students in a pilot AP African American Studies course at Atlanta’s Maynard Jackson High School told me they learned more about the contribution of their ancestors and their heritage in that single class than in their entire prior decade in school. “I have learned so much about our culture in this course and I feel they should be sharing our culture with everyone else,” said Da’Merra Handley, a student in the pilot class in the spring of 2023. “Everyone should be learning about it.” ...
Why Aren’t African American Scholars' Pedagogies Shaping How We Teach African American Students?" ; The Research: A Wealth of Culturally Responsive Pedagogies ; Why Aren’t These Pedagogies Being Used? ; 1. Systemic Bias and Traditional Norms
Before the 1960s, “Negro” adoption referred to the permanent placement of African-American children or mixed-race children who had one “Negro” birth parent. Few people considered transracial adoption a viable option for these children, with important exceptions such as Pearl S. Buck and Helen Doss, author of The Family Nobody Wanted. When adoption services were extended to children of color, they were strictly segregated and matching mattered just as it did for their white counterparts. ...
Americans adopted more than 22,000 foreign-born children last year. But a number of African-American and mixed-raced babies born in the United States are being adopted by foreigners living abroad.
an African-American (not biracial) child, the social worker explained to her. "And that is because they have children of color waiting," Lantz says. Adopting biracial, Latino, Asian or...
Rachel Garlinghouse and her husband, both white, have adopted three African-American children. She tells NPR's Rachel Martin that her transracial family makes her look at discrimination "in a whole...
Editor’s Note: In this series, CNN investigates international adoption, hearing from families, children and key experts on its decline, and whether the trend could – or should – be reversed. She plays tennis and ice hockey, and in the summer likes visiting her grandmother in the Swiss Alps. “It’s really nice to go there because you can walk in the mountains and you can mountain bike … you can see Edelweiss sometimes,” said the 13-year-old, referring to the famous mountain flower th...
Despite increases in transracial adoption, African American children remain the least likely to be adopted. No research has examined the factors that predict prospective adopters' willingness to ad...