by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Yes, this blog is still alive. I’ve just been really sick for the past couple weeks and have fallen far behind. Bear with me, we’ll get back to our usual schedule soon. Thanks.

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Tami Winfrey Harris
I miss the city sometimes.
It occurs to me that my family and I have traded something important to get a suburban one-acre lot with a fenced in backyard, a quiet, tree-lined street, an aura of safety and a school system that offers education with all the trimmings. We’ve traded […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Jeff writes: “My daughter posing with a garden snail we came across at a friend’s house during our January 2006 trip to Malawi to visit my wife’s parents.”
If you’d like to submit a pic to us, please email us at team@antiracistparent.com. Please […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Maegan “la Mala” Ortiz
I live along what is arguably the most diverse subway line, in the most diverse borough, of the most diverse city. This has provided me with more teaching moments than I would like. Lessons that I knew I would have to teach my 10 year old daughter […]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Jae Ran Kim
A few months ago my family reached a new milestone in our lives as a multi-racial family. My 14 year-old daughter has her first “boyfriend.” I have to admit that I have long been very curious about who my kids would choose to date. In our home, we have […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Cinds writes: “The cutest 18 month old Ethiopian triplet boys (Tsega, Bereket, and Sira) in the world have a hard time sitting still for a Christmas photo in their new and beautiful duds from Ghana, a gift from their grandma.”
If you’d like […]

Below is a double entry of sorts. The first is a slightly revised recent blog entry. The latter is an unpublished piece that another parenting website found “too partisan” to publish back around the time of the 2004 election. It’s important to me that my children are informed and active participants […]