About Dr. Stacey Patton
Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist and author of “Spare The Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America” and the forthcoming “Strung Up: The Lynching of Black Children In Jim Crow America.” You can find her on Substack.
This looks less like discipline and more like an insecure parent turning punishment into theater, possibly reenacting the kind of more private humiliation once done to her .
South Carolina State University invited Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette to deliver the spring commencement address. Students objected loudly and publicly.
Black folks in Brooklyn and Queens were already the primary source on this issue, and for decades they've watched it unfold as no one listened.
Candace Owens is skin folk, maybe, but certainly not kinfolk, and as our elders have long warned, when you lie down with dogs, you catch fleas.
April is supposed to be about child abuse prevention, protecting the most vulnerable, and catching harm before it reaches a child’s body.
Cerina Fairfax should be the focus in all of these discussions, not the mental health of the man who took her life while her children were home.
Ashly Robinson, a 31-year-old influencer who went by Ashlee Jenae, died while on vacation in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Starving student life organizations accomplishes something larger than cutting a budget line. It weakens the ecosystems that help marginalized students survive on predominantly white campuses.
In the wake of Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem being fired, headlines declare loudly, confidently, and with the urgency of a fresh discovery, that Trump's administration is misogynistic.
The discovery is being dressed up as an accident, softened into an artifact, and framed as a harmless “window into history” as if this were something distant, contained, and safely behind us.