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Understanding how they pass on racial bias to even young children. back in 2010 before the black lives matter movement and deaths of george floyd and eric gardner and trayvon martin and so many others who were known, we began to study the effects of racial bias on kids, working with a renowned child psychologist, we recreated and updated the famous doll test from the 1940s that used black and white dolls to ask kids about differences in race. instead of using dolls, the folks used the identical drawings of children with different shades of skin color and asked questions like can you show me th...

Seeing Black Santas shaped my worldview. We need more of them FacebookTwitterEmail Kaesen Hill, 3, has his photo taken with Santa, aka Chukundi Salisbury, Dec. 16, 2018. The group 100 Black Parents hosted a free Black Santa event at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center for kids to have their photos taken with Santa Claus.GENNA MARTIN / SEATTLEPI.COM The fingerprint that makes every holiday shopping season unique is how every year has that one in-demand item that gets people to wrestle each other in store aisles, or wait for hours in virtual queues, just for a shot at buying it. In the 1...

KINGSTON, N.Y. – City Police Department reforms considered by the Re-envision Public Safety Task Force are being developed largely without references to specific concerns or incidents related to law enforcement work within the city itself. Eleven reports were provided during a video conference public session Wednesday, with task force Chairman Lester Strong acknowledging that the academic-styled reports did not contain detailed city-based statistics to support the recommendations being made. “It’s exactly why we’re doing this work tonight,” he said. “This town ha...

A painting of two Black dolls by Aisebourne | Courtesy of William Grant Still Art Center To launch the first exhibition, the Fergersons reached out to artists who were part of Los Angeles' assemblage movement. The couple told the artists, "Make a doll and reinterpret the notion of dolls, reinterpret our identity, and let's do this show," according to Motevalli. "And it was mostly artwork. It was mostly assemblage art, and some Black dolls that were historic."  That first exhibition attracted people interested in doll-collecting, artwork, dolls used for religious purposes and the psychologi...

Black Santas can be controversial — and that's because of white supremacy, expert explains Kamilah Newton © Provided by Yahoo! Lifestyle Santa Larry, whose presence sparked controversy when he first appeared at the Mall of America's Santa Experience in 2016, is seen here speaking with a virtual visitor in November. (Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) When the story of an Arkansas family and their Black Santa display went viral earlier this week, it did so for two reasons — first for the angry, anonymous racist note it inspired, and then, shortly thereafter, for the su...