Family Policing: The Modern-Day Auction Block

This webinar was hosted by Movement for Family Power.

For centuries, the state has used family separation as a tool to control, punish, and commodify Black families—and this violence continues. The family policing system is the modern-day auction block, profiting off of the separation and destabilization of Black families.

For Black History Month 2025, Movement for Family Power hosted a dialogue on family policing, its anti-Black roots, and the Black-led movement for abolition, featuring

• Amanda Wallace, Operation Stop CPS 

• Erin Miles-Cloud, Civil Rights Corps 

• jasmine Sankofa, Movement for Family Power 

• Keshia Adeniyi, K.Adeniyi Law 

• Zaira Campos, Adoptees Crossing Lines