The foster care system and others failed Ma’Khia Bryant — and Black kids like her
Opinion: Dr. Stacey Patton, who recounts her personal experiences in the foster care system, says 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant deserves to be humanized beyond her tragic police-involved death. “There is no place in this world for Black children.” W.E.B. DuBois wrote these words in 1904 to convey the mean-spiritedness of mainstream life to the first generation…
