Black Women and the Care Agenda | National Partnership for Women & Families

Black women are family caregivers – and they need flexibility and economic supports to make the best decisions for themselves and their families

Experiences of Direct Care Workers and Family Caregivers of Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) | KFF

This issue brief presents findings from the focus groups including caregiver characteristics; physical, emotional, and mental caregiving demands of caregiving; their wages, finances, and opportunities for advancement; and what caregivers would like policymakers to know about their work.

Our Babies Aren’t 'Bad'—Understanding Autism in Black Children

Too many Black children—especially our Black boys—are being labeled as “bad." Let's get understanding of autism in Black children.

Interact with Minors

Against the collective neglect of the young.

To Be Curious - Alex’s Writing Journal

I don’t disagree, but I would argue what congress is missing is not youth, but curiosity. Which can be said about a lot of other groups and institutions. 🤷‍♂️

Creating Caring Institutions: Politics, Plurality, and Purpose

How do we know which institutions provide good care? Some scholars argue that the best way to think about care institutions is to model them upon the family or the market. This paper argues, on the...

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Black Feminist Thought, 30th Anniversary Edition: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock: (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

Ten fathers took extended leave to care for their babies – how their family life changed

Fathers became more involved in the often invisible domestic work needed to keep family life running smoothly.

Take Your Place: Rhetorical Healing and Black Womanhood in Tyler Perry’s Films

The unparalleled commercial sucessess that gospel-playwright-turned-screenwriter Tyler Perry has attained through converting his stage plays into films that depict black women overcoming personal crises raises questions about the intent behind his seemingly feminist-inspired representations of black womanhood. Through an analysis of the rhetoric of healing in Perry’s first two films, this essay reveals one of the suppressive pedagogical functions of Perry’s representation of black womanhood. Rhetorics of healing are a series of persuasive messages, performances, and literacy acts that writers deploy in order to convince readers that redressing or preventing crises requires them to follow the curriculum for ideological, communicative, and behavioral transformation that the writer considers essential to wellness. In Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea’s Family Reunion, Perry’s representation of rhetorical healing constructs black Christian women as students who must learn prescribed attitudes and behaviors to achieve, or remain in, states of wellness, and these lessons reinforce conservative gender ideologies and reify patriarchal constructions of the family and home. Given black women’s historically tenuous relationships with representations of themselves and their families in mainstream film, and given the ways in which their labor in the home is simultaneously desired and exploited, the popularity of Perry’s films does not suggest that his representations of healing foster black women’s self-empowerment. Rather, his popularity points to a moment where black women’s pain is a commodity and their instructive journeys to wellness are an exploited site where writers can carry out their own agendas.

Disparities in Autism Ascertainment in Black Children

Tune in to learn about disparities in autism diagnosis and access to supports.

News for Black America - NewsOne

Breaking news for and about Black America: politics, original stories, diverse opinions, current events and their impact on Black lives.

Parenting - Fable | Stories for everyone

Delivering the world’s best social experience with exceptional stories in service of mental wellness.

Beyond the blank slate: Why Black women’s trust is critical for equitable AI | Brookings

Zarah Guillemet and Raj Korpan discuss preliminary research on Black women's trust in AI and implications for policymakers.

Being Black: Selections from "Soledad Brother" by Georg…

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