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Who counts as a citizen, and what does it take to become counted? Claudia Rankine addresses this question in her 2014 book,…

For Jowan Smith, family life is an incubator of ideas. She created Getting Our Babies to College 101 (GOBTC),  a nonprofit based…

We have a huge problem in Cleveland, and to me, the problem is unreal. It’s something I’ve associated with third world countries…

Editor’s Note: The author is publishing anonymously to protect her son’s identity.  As a work-at-home mom of three, the first day of…

Gia and Floyd are bonding. Every morning, Gia lets Floyd, a boxer pup, out of his cage, takes him out to the…

(5:30 a.m.)  Ding. Pam: “Are we doing this?” Ding. Anne: “I am in.” I can hear the light, frozen rain hitting the…

The first time Tierra Banks caught herself speaking about her mother without saying anything negative was in front of a crowd of…

Cameron Cupar first learned about human trafficking from a European exchange student whose family had multiple survivors. “What surprised me the most…

As we wake up to a new year, many of us are reflecting on what did (and didn’t) work in 2018 and…

Inside the family emergency shelter, I see a woman with six children vying for her attention, trying to explain something to another…