Lyric Ross On ‘This Is Us’ And The Power Of Relatability
In the fourth episode of Season 4 of “This Is Us,” Randall Pearson ― the upbeat yet neurotic, pep-talking father of three girls, played expertly by Sterling K. Brown ―…
Federally Funded Evangelical Foster Agency Still Won’t Accept Jewish Or Queer Volunteers
A federally funded Christian foster agency in South Carolina has decided to open its doors to prospective foster parents and employees who aren’t evangelical Protestants ― but the organization’s ban…
GOP threat ends Kansas governor’s food assistance extension
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday dropped a policy that allowed several thousand Kansas adults to keep receiving food assistance after failing to meet a work requirement, reversing course days…
We Built This: Kevinee Gilmore Wants To Turn Our Attention To Foster Kids
Kevinee Gilmore knows what rejection feels like. After spending five years in foster care bouncing between different homes and high schools, she became homeless. For most of her young life,…
When Schools Use Child Protective Services As A Weapon Against Parents
CHICAGO and NEW YORK — Tiffany Banks sat in her living room, a ruby-red wall decorated with family photographs behind her, listing all the ways her life had unraveled over…
How Schools For Kids In Foster Care Act As ‘Educational Black Holes’
PHILADELPHIA and GREENVILLE, Pa. — Back when he still lived with his family, when school was across the street from his home in West Philadelphia, Johnathan Hamilton used to plow…
Reading Between The Lines Of ‘White Oleander’ Almost 20 Years Later
It has been almost two decades since Janet Fitch published her debut novel, White Oleander, about a girl separated from her parents and thrust into the grueling American foster system.…
How Parents Are Helping Families Separated At The Border
You don’t have to be a parent to be outraged by the separation of families at the border. But for many moms and dads on the outside looking in, it’s…