Black Love, Black Power, Black Families, in Amerikkka

This webinar was hosted by African American Studies at UC Berkeley.

The violence enacted through American policies that criminalize and separate families has a legacy that began long before Donald Trump’s administration laid that violence bare. The history of dehumanizing and dividing families goes back to before our nation’s inception, starting with the genocide of Black and Indigenous peoples. Ripping children from their parents and severing the fabric of families causes trauma that impacts not just those families, but entire communities and future generations.

In part two of this two part conversation, Erin Miles Cloud of Movement for Family Power and Professor Dorothy Roberts will join moderator Zach Norris in a discussion about how family separation operates in the context of the “child welfare” system. They will also discuss what policy and other changes need to be advanced to achieve transformative change.