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.
If you don't read anything else this weekend, read this column from Dr. Stacey Patton, which outlines how quickly Jeff Metcalf's racism jumped out once the gag order was lifted.
The recent cases of Karmelo Anthony and Cyrus Carmack-Belton feel like a get-back or a snapback, backlash that has been waiting underneath the Black Lives Matter movement.
Once again, the legal system has reminded Black America that our children can be murdered in the marketplace and their killers can be afforded reasonable doubt.
Days after the sixth anniversary of George Floyd's public murder, the Minnesota Republican Party held a moment of silence for his killer, Derek Chauvin.
Black youth are being placed at the center of a civil rights fight, and their bodies, choices, futures, and labor are being asked to carry the moral weight of a nation’s failure.
So apparently, America can do reparations and wrap up the process in two years; it just depends on who is crying.
Anybody pretending to be shocked has not been paying attention to the city Howard University students had to survive while earning their degrees.
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.