“Could you tell us what real diversity looks like?”

That was the question posed to Rinku Sen by someone at our annual conference this June. Sen covers these issues everyday as president and executive director of the Applied Research Center and publisher of Colorlines.com. Her answer? “Real diversity looks…

Healing the racial divide

Today I wanted to draw your attention to one foundation’s commitment to healing the racial divide in America. Dr. Gail C. Christopher, vice president
of programs for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, a Voices for America’s Children funder, has penned…

Defending our health care protections

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I’d like to reflect on an issue very close to King’s heart.  “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane,” he said in a speech to…

Black children disproportionately in foster care in 46 states

We’ve known for a long time that African American children depend on the foster care system more than other races.  But a new report shows that African American children are disproportionately represented in the system in nearly every state.

The…

Black Administrators in Child Welfare Annual Conference Addresses Disproportionality

Disproportionality in child welfare occurs when a group is overrepresented in the system as compared to their proportion in the population. For example, Black children are 31 percent of the child welfare population but only 14.7 percent of the children…

Controversy around W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Healing Initiative

We strongly disagree with an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Stephan Thernstrom that argued that certain efforts to address racism in our society are misguided.

Voices for America’s Children, the nation’s largest network of multi-issue children’s…

The Ugly Return of School Segregation

Although racial segregation has been outlawed for more than 50 years, de facto segregation is appearing in schools across the country. As the Washington Post reports, a white flight in school transfers taking place in one rural Mississippi school…