Penn Program on Race, Science, & SocietyOn December 3, the CBS Sunday Morning Program featured PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts in a piece highlighting the harms of the family policing system on children and families.
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The Program on Race, Science and Society (PRSS) is an initiative at the University of Pennsylvania devoted to transformative and interdisciplinary approaches to the role of race in scientific research and biotechnological innovations, aiming both to promote social justice and to dispel the myth that race is a natural division of human beings.
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Mother Jones magazine published an excerpt from Professor Dorothy Roberts's new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
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Hafeeza Anchrum, a postdoctoral fellow in PRSS, received the Marion R. Gregory Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing.
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, by Professor and PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts, will be released by Basic Books