by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’ll be on the road until Thursday, with little to no internet access. So feel free to comment, but I won’t be able to approve comments in the queue until I’m back. Thanks, and enjoy the holiday weekend!

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Michelle Myers
“Yeah, it’s a race and I’m running,
but somewhere along the lines I lost you—
among the clueless browns,
the clueless blacks,
the clueless yellows—
and what’s worse,
the just-kickin-its,
the just bought-into-its.”
-I was Born with Two Tongues, “Race, and I’m Running,” Broken Speak CD
A few weeks ago while watching “Dancing with the Stars,” my husband […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Brian Johnson
Imagine these words set to music…

What can you expect from filthy little heathens? Here’s what you get when races are diverse. Their skins are hellish red; they’re only good when dead. They’re vermin, as I said, and worse, they’re savages. Barely even human…They’re not like you and me, which […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Kellie writes: “My baby Ruthie is already 8 and she strives to be a super model. On our budget not sure how quick that will happen . Ruthie wears a womens size 8 shoe and towers over everyone in 3rd grade. She’s […]

by guest contributor Catherine Bray
When my husband and I decided to adopt a baby in 2006 we put on our happy “never have done this before and don’t know what’s in store” faces and told our caseworker that we didn’t care about race. We told her that we just wanted a healthy baby girl and […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Deesha Philyaw
As the mother of two girls who do not live under rocks, I have not been able to escape the whole princess thing. A few years back, when my oldest was in kindergarten and my youngest was an infant, I wrote a column (for another site) about how, as I […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Dawn Friedman
When we decided to pursue a domestic adoption nearly five years ago, my husband and I – both of us white – decided that we were open to adopting transracially. We were naïve about this – we really didn’t understand the challenges for children adopted transracially – but when we […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Christine Peebles writes: “These are two of our greatest blessings, Andrew Prasad(7) our ‘giving saint’ from India and Sky(6) our ‘fierce debater’ from Guatemala. At 20 months apart they are twins at heart. They both love learning about different cultures and races, […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Liza Talusan
I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of how to teach, expose, and experience diversity in a “diversity-free” zone (thanks for the segue Tami!). I directly experience this issue personally and professionally every single day of my life as the Director of Intercultural Affairs at a small, private college […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula, originally published at Heart, Mind and Seoul
A little over a week ago, I received a phone call from a woman who happens to work with my mom. This woman, K., is only a few years older than I am and has three children; her youngest child is in the […]