The American Academy of Adoption Attorneys is a national association of approximately 340 attorneys who practice, or have otherwise distinguished themselves, in the field of adoption law. The Academy’s work includes promoting the reform of adoption laws and disseminating information on ethical adoption practices.

Child Welfare Information Gateway, a service of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children, youth and families by connecting child welfare, adoption, and related professionals as well as the general public to information, resources, and tools covering topics on […]

The National Association of Black Social Workers is one of the foremost advocacy groups that addresses social issues and concerns of the Black community. Melanie Bryant is the National Office Director.

January 2007 paper written by Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Daniel Pollack of American University that concludes that Black children spend more time as legal orphans than children of other races and that transracial placement speeds their adoptions.

The Center for Inquiry held a vigil outside Christopher Hitchens’ Washington, D.C., home on Friday, December 16, 2011, the day after Hitchens’ death.

Daryl P. Domning is an anatomy professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is an expert on vertebrate paleontology, marine mammals and the creation-evolution controversy and can discuss evolutionary theology.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen wrote Love in Black and White: A Memoir of Race, Religion and Romance with his wife, Janet Langhart. Cohen is white and the son of a Jewish father and a Protestant Irish mother, while Langhart is African-American and the daughter of a Southern Baptist mother, a single parent. Contact […]

March 12, 2006, The Washington Post editorial about courts ruling in favor of the rights of gay and lesbian parents.

The Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work.