We discuss the principles and practices families are using to challenge dominant narratives about race and class and bring about promising new possibilities for racial and educational justice.

We talk to Professor Gina Samuels, herself a transracial adoptee, about her research on the experiences of transracial adoption for adoptees and families and its implications for parenting within and beyond families.

Children’s authors Marti Dumas and Zetta Elliott join us to talk about the importance of inclusive fantasy fiction for all young readers and to read from their latest books involving, dragons!

Kids are encountering white nationalism online, at school, in their peer groups and communities. We talk to a former white nationalist and to an educator about how to recognize recruitment efforts, as well as the vulnerabilities that might leave a young person susceptible to recruitment.

With well over two million people in state and federal prisons, juvenile correctional facilities, local jails, detention facilities, and other spaces of confinement, the United States incarcerates people at a higher rate than any other country in the world.

Widespread non-enrollment of Indigenous children contributes to a widespread identity crisis among native youth and raises the question of whether independent, sovereign Indigenous nations will survive.

We all have influence over the young people in our lives. But how many of us really see ourselves as “mentors”? And how can mentoring relationships of all kinds directly address the impacts of race, class, gender, sexuality and other factors on young people’s identities and experiences?

How do you choose children’s books about Native peoples? Because most of us were socialized and educated to think of Native peoples in narrow and biased ways, we typically don't recognize how deeply flawed they are.