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Pregnancy criminalization—often rooted in fetal personhood laws and anti-drug sentiment—has a long history and applies criminal suspicions to those who have pregnancies resulting in miscarriages or stillbirths. Lourdes Rivera, President of Pregnancy Justice and Dr. Dorothy Roberts, professor of Africana Studies, Law, and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, sit down to talk with us about pregnancy criminalization, the child welfare system, and how Roe's overturning further impacts rates of criminalization.   Themes of compelling people to give birth, the separation of families, and the criminalization of pregnancy reaches back to the United States' slavery era. Pregnancy criminalization heavily unfolded during the U.S.' crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s, disproportionately targeting Black women and turning a public health matter into a criminal one. These reproductive liberties, which have been consistently attacked throughout U.S. history, are further constrained with the repeal of Roe. Mandatory reporters within the current child welfare system are much more likely to report Black women to child protection authorities, as well as impoverished patients. Support the showFollow Us on Social: Twitter: @rePROsFightBack Instagram: @reprosfbFacebook: rePROs Fight Back Email us: jennie@reprosfightback.comRate and Review on Apple PodcastThanks for listening & keep fighting back!

On today's episode, Dorothy Roberts joins me and UVA Law 3Ls Darius Adel and Julia D'Rozario to discuss her work on race-based medicine and the child welfare system. Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Professor Roberts' work focuses on urgent social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and bioethics. Her major books include Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022); Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997). She is also the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law. Her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard Program on Ethics & the Professions, and Stanford Center for the Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. Recent recognitions of her scholarship and public service include 2019 Rutgers University- Newark Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, 2017 election to the National Academy of Medicine, 2016 Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, and the 2015 American Psychiatric Association Solomon Carter Fuller Award.  Show notes: Dorothy Roberts Full Bio, University of Pennsylvania https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/roberts1 Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022)Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011)Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002)Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997).

"I don't romanticize my suffering and my trauma and I don't allow other people to do it either." - Aretha Frazier, Black, kinship adoptee Aretha Frazier's younger sister is her biological niece and Aretha's mom is her biological aunt. Aretha was introduced to the complexities of family relationships early in life, being born to parents who struggled with crack addictions in Detroit in the 1990s. She still vividly remembers the fear of seeing the two police officers who came to remove her and her two younger siblings from their home and from her biological mother's care. Their favorite aunt came to pick them up, and with a new home came a new name and a new relationship. Favorite auntie quickly became a mother whom she learned to fear. Aretha experienced unchecked physical abuse until the age of 12, but emotional and mental abuse by her mother continued. Her strict and controlling ways often went ignored by other family members who never let Aretha forget that she should be grateful for the good life, education and opportunities her mother provided. Aretha turned out better than fine; she became a successful lawyer. Wasn't life so much better than what it would have been if she'd stayed with her biological mother? People tend to believe that intrafamilial adoption, or kinship adoption, is inherently all good and that is far from the truth. Aretha's story parallels many of the challenges experienced by those who are adopted by non-biological kin. For so many years Aretha walked on eggshells, tip-toeing around her adoption to avoid the landmines of her mom's emotions. Today, she's using her voice and her story to help people interrogate their assumptions about kinship adoption. She proudly identifies as #BlackAndAdopted and we love to see it! Clap it up for EPISODE 50, y'all!! Wow. This milestone was reached in partnership with YOU. Thank you for every listen, every share, every DM, every storyteller and every piece of support and encouragement. Cheers to changing the narrative one episode at a time! As always, LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE & SHARE! SHOW NOTES CONNECT WITH US! Black to the Beginning on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Black to the Beginning on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Black to the Beginning on ⁠⁠Youtube         ⁠⁠ RECOMMENDED ADOPTION RESOURCES LISTEN: Voices of the Black Adoption Experience and African American adoptees on ⁠⁠The Black Adoption Podcast⁠⁠ SUPPORT: ⁠Black Adoptee Support Group & Adopted Black Girl Podcast⁠ REQUIRED READING: ⁠⁠Black to the Beginning Reads Bookshop⁠⁠  - A carefully curated list of #BTTBreads FEATURED #BTTBreads: ⁠Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World⁠ by Dorothy Roberts AS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE: "I'm Glad My Mom Died" by Jennette McCurdy SUPPORT THE BLACK ADOPTION PODCAST ⁠⁠SUPPORTER⁠⁠: Make a monthly contribution of $0.99, $4.99, or $9.99 PAYPAL/ZELLE: info@blacktothebeginning.com ⁠⁠SHOP Black to the Beginning⁠           ⁠ SHARE YOUR BLACK ADOPTION STORY ⁠⁠Podcast Guest Questionnaire⁠⁠ #ADOPTION #FOSTERCARE #KINSHIP --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/black-to-the-beginning/support

"I just believe that the plan for their life and my life is going to exceed everything I've gone through." - Michelle Senior, adoptive mom following emergency foster care placement Less than a year after her son was murdered, Michelle Senior found herself unexpectedly caring for three children under the age of two. When people comment that she "saved" them, she's quick to correct them that her three "miracles" saved her. Grief mixed with the overwhelm of unplanned motherhood and trauma from her past had her contemplating taking her own life. Thankfully, she didn't. Although Michelle, instead, recognized the blessing in having more to live for - despite the challenges - this conversation dives deeper into how do parents care for themselves navigating personal trauma while also caring for traumatized children. It takes more than love in either case, that much is for certain. SHOW NOTES CONNECT WITH US! Black to the Beginning on ⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠ Black to the Beginning on ⁠Facebook⁠⁠ ⁠ Black to the Beginning on ⁠Youtube         ⁠ Michelle on Instagram @welcome2thezoocus RECOMMENDED ADOPTION RESOURCES LISTEN: Voices of the Black Adoption Experience and African American adoptees on ⁠The Black Adoption Podcast⁠ SUPPORT: National Foster Parent Association Resource Page⁠ REQUIRED READING: ⁠Black to the Beginning Reads Bookshop⁠  - A carefully curated list of #BTTBreads FEATURED #BTTBreads: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy Roberts SUPPORT THE BLACK ADOPTION PODCAST ⁠SUPPORTER⁠: Make a monthly contribution of $0.99, $4.99, or $9.99 PayPal/Zelle: info@blacktothebeginning.com ⁠SHOP Black to the Beginning           ⁠ SHARE YOUR BLACK ADOPTION STORY ⁠Podcast Guest Questionnaire⁠ #ADOPTION #FOSTERCARE --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/black-to-the-beginning/support

“The Long Struggle to Abolish Reproductive Slavery” with Dorothy Roberts Annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights Presented in partnership with the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at UT-Austin School of Law The Rothko Chapel and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin present the eighth annual Sissy Farenthold Lecture featuring acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, on the intersections between reproductive rights, criminalization of pregnancy, and the family policing/separation systems in the aftermath of the June 2022 Dobbs decision. Roberts will explore the histories of compelled births in the US dating back to Black women's reproductive bondage during slavery, and the abolitionist frameworks that call for the dismantling of these targeted, oppressive structures for more compassionate and equitable reproductive rights and family support systems. The lecture will be followed by conversation moderated by Eleanor Klibanoff, women's health reporter at the Texas Tribune, and a book signing on the Welcome House Plaza of Robert's Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (2022). Named in honor of Sissy Farenthold (1926-2021), who dedicated her life to exposing and responding to injustices as a lawyer, legislator, and global leader in human rights, this lecture series inspires audiences to think and act creatively in response to the greatest human rights challenges of the 21st century.

Dorothy Roberts is George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology; Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights; and Professor of Africana Studies Director, Program on Race, Science and Society.  She is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law. Her pathbreaking work focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children and African-Americans.  In this episode, we discuss her 2022 book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World and her 2019  Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997). She is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law.Read Dorothy Roberts' Harvard Law Review Foreword, Abolition Constitutionalism (2019), and her November 2022 intervention in the Harvard Law Review Forum, Racism, Abolition, and Historical Resembalnce.

In conversation with Dorothy Roberts Referred to by Jelani Cobb as ''a Dean of American journalism,'' Charlayne Hunter-Gault has chronicled some of the past half-century's most important moments in Black life, culture, and politics. Often the only Black woman in the newsroom, she wrote for The New Yorker and The New York Times, where in 1968 she established the paper's Harlem bureau. Also a broadcast journalist, Hunter-Gault served as a reporter and anchor for PBS's McNeil-Lehrer Newshour, NPR's chief Africa correspondent, and the South Africa bureau chief for CNN. Her many honors include two Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and honors from the National Urban coalition and the National Association of Black Journalists. Ranging from the Civil Rights Movement to Barack Obama's presidential election, My People is a definitive compilation of reportage and commentary that explores the Black American experience.  Dorothy Roberts is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies and the author of several books that focus on health, social justice, and bioethics. Her most recent book is Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families-and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. (recorded 10/24/2022)

Penn community members Serena Mayeri, Carol Tracy, Antoilyn Nguyen, and Alicia Meyer comment on the recent Dobbs ruling that overturned the nearly 50 year precedent of the constitutional right to an abortion. This ep also features excerpts from the work of SaraEllen Strongman, Dorothy Roberts, and Jessa Lingel. Resources mentioned in this ep: Center for Reproductive Rights Our Data Bodies Tech Learning Collective  Electronic Frontier Foundation Penn-specific resources: Penn Reproductive Justice Working Group Penn Association for Gender Equality (PAGE) Penn Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health     Penn If/When/How: Lawyering For Reproductive Justice SaraEllen Strongman's Washington Post article  “Despite antiabortion campaigns, Black feminists support abortion rights” Dorothy Roberts' new book Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World Jessa Lingel in Penn Today article on privacy post-Roe Podcast original music by David Chavannes For more information about the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies visit www.gsws.sas.upenn.edu

Dorothy Roberts - Acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law who joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School where she holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander chair. She joins Tavis for a conversation about her latest text “Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World”

In the final installment a 3 part podcast episode, Host Ramses Ja talks with author and renown educator Dr. Dorothy Roberts about her national bestseller "Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is sponsored by the National Association of Counsel for Children. Join  us at the NACC annual conference in Baltimore, August 22-24, 2022. The theme is Bridging Theory to Practice: Learning  and Unlearning  to Drive Effective Advocacy. We hope to see you there! In this episode we talk with Professor Kristin Henning, The Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law. Professor Henning discusses the traumatic effects of policing on children of color, and how children's lawyers can respond. Professor Henning is the author of Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth. She also mentioned several other resources, including Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, by Dorothy Roberts; Seeing What's Underneath: A Resource for Understanding Behavior and Using Language in Juvenile Court; and, for NACC members, her recent article in The Guardian, What Counsel for Children Need to Know About the Traumatic Effects of Policing (p. 31). 

In the 2nd installment a 3 part podcast episode, Ramses Ja continues his discussion with author and renown educator Dr. Dorothy Roberts to discuss her national bestseller "Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The term is over, and the ground upon which all Americans stood, has fundamentally shifted. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Dorothy Roberts to discuss the reality of forced birth and family separation upon marginalized peoples in America. Dorothy is the author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, and of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Then, Dahlia talks to Amy Westervelt of Drilled podcast to find out what West Virginia v EPA means for climate action, and the places the Biden Administration could still make progress.  For a behind the scenes look into some of the articles we read when we create the show, check out our Pocket collection at http://getpocket.com/slate.  Slate plus listeners will also have access to Dahlia's conversation with Mark Joseph Stern, where they dig into some of the cases we couldn't reach in the main show, including the Remain in Mexico decision and the alarming implications of the court taking up Moore v. Harper, which is all about the Independent State Legislature theory.  Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The term is over, and the ground upon which all Americans stood, has fundamentally shifted. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Dorothy Roberts to discuss the reality of forced birth and family separation upon marginalized peoples in America. Dorothy is the author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, and of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Then, Dahlia talks to Amy Westervelt of Drilled podcast to find out what West Virginia v EPA means for climate action, and the places the Biden Administration could still make progress.  For a behind the scenes look into some of the articles we read when we create the show, check out our Pocket collection at http://getpocket.com/slate.  Slate plus listeners will also have access to Dahlia's conversation with Mark Joseph Stern, where they dig into some of the cases we couldn't reach in the main show, including the Remain in Mexico decision and the alarming implications of the court taking up Moore v. Harper, which is all about the Independent State Legislature theory.  Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More than one in ten Black children in America will be forcibly separated from their parents and placed in foster care by the time they reach age eighteen. Professor Dorothy Roberts joins us to discuss the racialized history of parenting, family autonomy, and the child welfare system. From the role of slavery in framing the Black mother to disastrous 90s legislation rooted in racial stereotypes, Professor Roberts makes the case that child welfare was designed to punish the most disenfranchised communities instead of to protect children. After over thirty years of research, Dr. Roberts concludes that abolition is the only way to end the trauma caused by what she calls family policing. Guest: Dorothy Roberts (@DorothyERoberts) is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her newest book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families– and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World is available today. If you enjoy this show and want to help fight poverty and injustice, consider making a donation to Community Legal Services today! You can also follow us on Twitter @CLSphila to stay connected. 

PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Postgraduate Fellow Sophia Ramirez interviews legal scholar, sociologist, and social justice advocate Dorothy E. Roberts about her new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, which peels back the benevolent façade of the child welfare system, revealing the cruel and oppressive structures within. Roberts calls for the abolition of the system, advocating for community-based responses. Ramirez and Roberts discuss the child welfare system's racist origins, carceral logic, and the destruction it deals to Black families and minority communities.

In the first installment a 3 part podcast episode, Ramses Ja talks with author and renown educator Dr. Dorothy Roberts to discuss her national bestseller "Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emma hosts Dorothy Roberts, professor of Law, Sociology, and Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss her recent book Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Emma first covers yesterday's simultaneous mass shootings, including five dead in Tulsa, the continued shortage of US-produced baby formula, the Israeli murder of another journalist in the occupied West Bank, and the GOP pitching mental health policy, which they don't support, as a solution to gun violence. Professor Dorothy Roberts then joins to discuss her book as a continuation of her work on the family policing system that we call “child welfare,” a system that fits neatly within our greater carceral apparatus. First, she and Emma trace the history of the family policing system back to the early era of American settler colonialism and slavery, with family separation as a tool of control over Black and indigenous communities, seen in the wake of the Civil War with “apprenticeships” of black children that put them back in the hands of former slave owners, and throughout the early history of the US Military removing indigenous kids from their communities, put into either military barracks or the infamous residential schools. Professor Roberts and Emma then discuss the framing of tactics as the criminalization of poverty disguised as the saving of children, and how this “benevolent terror” stripped agency away from POC and families under the guise of empathy. Next, Prof. Roberts walks through the impact of political stereotypes of Black women on the genuine criminalization of them and their children, starting with Reagan's endorsement of the “welfare queen” myth alongside the trifecta of crime control, the war on drugs, a complete unraveling of the welfare system, and continuing deep into the Clinton administration's commitment to neoliberalism. They wrap up the interview by moving to the criminalization of Black women's pregnancy in a way that has become increasingly more prevalent in an era of assault on reproductive rights, and take on the particular role of law enforcement in ensuring these terror attacks on poor families are committed, before Dorothy takes on the importance of income community-based programs and services in creating a future without these carceral attacks on family. And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Matt and Brandon as Dave from Jamaica calls to address the worrying obsession on the right (and not-so-on-the-right) over the Depp v. Heard decision, as they watch Crowder capitalize on a WOMAN being denounced as a DEFAMER, and Matt Lech dives deeper into the idea of defamation vs. free speech. Will from Indiana sparks Emma's sports talk, Sam Harris philosophizes about children dying, but with reverse racism, and Joe Rogan discusses his turn against UBI as he realized that capitalists DO deserve all the power, otherwise, who's gonna be a wage slave? Jake the teacher dives into New York's mayoral control over the school system, plus, your calls and IMs! Check out Dorothy's book here: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dorothy-roberts/torn-apart/9781541675445/ Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here:  https://madmimi.com/signups/170390/join Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Support the St. Vincent Nurses today! https://action.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/ Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Matt's other show Literary Hangover on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/literaryhangover Check out The Nomiki Show on YouTube. https://www.patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out The Letterhack's upcoming Kickstarter project for his new graphic novel! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/milagrocomic/milagro-heroe-de-las-calles Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein's podcast News from Nowhere. https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere  Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

Join Dorothy E. Roberts, J.D. and Joyce McMillan for a conversation highlighting the harms within the so-called child welfare system. Join Dorothy E. Roberts, J.D. and Joyce McMillan for a conversation highlighting the harms, and in particular the damage social workers have caused and continue to perpetuate, within the so-called child welfare system. "Social work and Family Policing" will draw on Professor Roberts' decades of research, culminating in her recent book Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World and Joyce McMillan's years of abolitionist organizing against family policing. This conversation will explore the systemic oppression of the family policing system, especially against poor Black, Indigenous, and Latinae families. We will explore concrete ideas for how social workers and others working with families can adopt an abolitionist approach. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Dorothy E. Roberts, J.D. is a Professor of Africana Studies, Law, and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law whose latest book is Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Joyce McMillan is a thought leader, advocate, activist, community organizer, and educator. Joyce is the founder and executive director of JMacForFamilies a nonprofit whose mission is to abolish the family policing system while creating concrete community resources in communities of color who are disproportionately affected by systems of harm. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/Q7xo9PsA7ic Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Sen. Peters discusses his official U.S. delegation trip to Europe, Ukraine, Title 42 on the southern border, and more. And Roberts talks about her book "Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families— and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World"

DeRay, Kaya, Myles and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week— including the evolution of no knock warrants, Black Jews speak up & speak out, freed people's letters to their former enslavers, and T.I.'s public feud with a Black woman comedian. DeRay interviews author and professor Dorothy Roberts about her new book Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families— and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. News DeRay https://endallnoknocks.org/ Kaya https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/dining/black-jews-passover-seder.html Myles https://www.thefader.com/2022/04/07/ti-takes-mic-after-comedian-mentions-sexual-assault-allegations De'Ara https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/13/letters-to-enslavers/    For a transcript, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is the child welfare system set up to destroy Black families? That is a question asked in the new book TORN APART: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Professor Dorothy Roberts. She challenges the system that exists, discusses the stories of families negatively affected, and the possibilities for change.

Is the child welfare system set up to destroy Black families? That is a question asked in the new book TORN APART: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Professor Dorothy Roberts. She challenges the system that exists, discusses the stories of families negatively affected, and the possibilities for change.

Welcome to Difficult Conversations with Dr. Anthony Orsini.  Today, I am are honored to have another amazing guest.  Our guest today is Dorothy Roberts, who is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School where she holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She's also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, & Society. Dorothy is the author of several award-winning books including, Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, Fatal Invention, and Torn Apart, coming out soon. Recent recognitions of her work include 2019 Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees at Rutgers University, 2017 election to the National Academy of Medicine, 2016 Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award. Her TED talk on, “The problem with race-based medicine.” has had over 1 million views. Dr Roberts tells us about her background, growing up in Chicago and how she pursued her interest in social justice.  We learn what race-based medicine is and why it is such a big problem. Dorothy shares a story about a clinical trial she participated in and why it seemed so unscientific to use race as a variable. We find out who Dr. Samuel Cartwright was,  and why he is so important to understanding the role that racial medicine has played over time  in America.  Dorothy discusses the impact that diagnostic tools being used in medicine today that use  automatic race correction have  for black patients based on false assumptions.   We learn why it is so important when speaking to medical students and physicians to ask why they are using race when they should be looking at genetics.  We discuss her  book, Fatal Invention, that is used by incoming medical students across the country, as well as her new book coming out in April, Torn Apart, which is about racism in the child welfare system.  Host:Dr. Anthony OrsiniGuest:Dorothy RobertsFor More Information:The Orsini WayThe Orsini Way-FacebookThe Orsini Way-LinkedInThe Orsini Way-InstagramThe Orsini Way-Twitterdrorsini@theorsiniway.comIt's All In The Delivery: Improving Healthcare Starting With A Single Conversation by Dr. Anthony OrsiniResources Dorothy Roberts Twitterdorothyroberts@law.upenn.eduTED Talk 2015- Dorothy Roberts: The problem with race-based medicineFatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy RobertsTorn Apart:  How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy Roberts 

In this episode of the Law Review Online's podcast, See generally, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor Dorothy Roberts joins Seth and Magali to discuss her scholarship, her pathway to academia, and her new upcoming book. Professor Roberts described balancing motherhood with life in private practice, the importance of teaching students about diversity as early as possible and the negative consequences of avoiding such an education, particularly in the medical field. Professor Roberts also explained the importance and value of Critical Race Theory and the unfortunate misconceptions that have been spread about it. And, most importantly, Professor Roberts explained her motivation for and goal in writing her new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (which will be released by Basic Books on April 5, 2022). Interview and edits by Magali Duque, Online Managing Editor, Vol. 170, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and Seth Rosenberg, Senior Editor, Vol. 170, University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Produced by Magali Duque, Online Managing Editor, Vol. 170, University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Cover Art by Emily Horwitz, Online Executive Editor, Vol. 170, University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Cite as: See generally, A Conversation with Penn Law Professor Dorothy Roberts, U. Pa. L. Rev. (Mar. 3, 2022), https://anchor.fm/see-generally-podcast. © University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2022.

Today's show is all about reproductive health, rights and justice. We are unpacking the Texas abortion law, S.B. 8, talking about the Supreme Court, and what the legacies of legislative interference with reproductive decision-making and autonomy mean for women, people who can become pregnant, and for U.S. democracy.    We're diving right in with a very special guest and pioneer in the reproductive justice movement and thought leader on reproductive health and rights:  Professor Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds and the forthcoming page-turner, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. She is the George A. Weiss University professor of law and sociology, the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander professor of civil rights, as well as a professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also serves as the director of the Program on Race, Science and Society.  Rate and review “On the Issues with Michele Goodwin" to let us know what you think of the show! Let's show the power of independent feminist media.  Check out this episode's landing page at MsMagazine.com for a full transcript, links to articles referenced in this episode, further reading and ways to take action. Tips, suggestions, pitches? Get in touch with us at ontheissues@msmagazine.com. Support the show (http://msmagazine.com)