by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Dawn Friedman
One of the first things I learned when my husband and I, both white people, began to explore adopting a child of African descent is that there would be a major curve for us to get educated about caring for a texture of hair unfamiliar to us. At the […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 62) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race. (Sorry this one was so late!)
Carmen is joined by guest co-host Kai Chang in this episode. Kai is a technology entrepreneur and progressive activist living and working in […]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Liz Dwyer
I grew up being called, “white sugar” by my maternal grandmother. My cousin was the “brown sugar”. My grandmother would good-naturedly say that white sugar was the sweetest. Needless to say, my browner-skinned cousin didn’t like me very much.
I was the white sugar because I’m the child of an Irish-American […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Congratulations to our very own Anti-Racist Parent columnist Susan Lyons-Joell! She just gave birth to a healthy baby girl last week! Sue writes:
“Six-day old Jessica is bonding with her Pop-Pop. He’s wearing an Eagles shirt to start training her early. She’s smiling because […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Cloudscome
We were standing waist deep in the water of the community pool on a hot July afternoon. I was holding Buddy Boy, my 23 month old adopted black son in my arms. I wasn’t the only white mother with brown kids in the pool, but I was one of the few. […]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Jae Ran Kim
Okay, I am totally showing my age here, but when I was a kid in the midwest in the 1970’s and 80’s, my siblings and I spent every Saturday morning watching cartoons and its safe to say that much of what I remember about the 3 R’s (reading, ‘riting […]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Michelle Myers
“. . . well, enough rage and helplessness, and your love turns to something else. . . . It turns to steaming piss.”
-Mitchell Stephens in The Sweet Hereafter
“I’m telling you this . . . because we’ve all lost our children . . . . They’re dead to us. . . […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Stephanie Brown writes:
“I love your site and wanted to send in this picture for the gratuitous cute kid pic! This is my 2 1/2 year old son eating a giant ice cream cone at the NC fair! Thanks so much!
If […]