Black and Latino families don't have as large a safety net as white families, regardless of the number of parents in the family. Reasons for the racial wealth gap are rooted in racist American ...

The median single-parent white family had $35,800 in wealth (two-parent white families had $161,300). Black and Latino two-parent families still have half the wealth of white families with just ...

“Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families,” the pledge said, “yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two ...

American liberals need to accept that single-parent families are more likely to raise children in poverty, an influential New York Times columnist has argued. Nick Kristof said the fact was taboo ...

American liberals have led the campaign to reduce child poverty since Franklin Roosevelt, and it’s a proud legacy. But we have long had a blind spot. We are often reluctant to acknowledge one of ...

As Kamala Harris took the stage Thursday night for the biggest speech of her political life, she addressed the nation as an African American woman, despite the fact that one of her parents isn’t ...

Parents' advice benefits African American youth, when they seek support. by Marianne Stein, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...