written by Love Isn’t Enough guest contributor Anne Sibley O’Brien; originally published at Coloring Between the Lines
The article below appears in the current issue of the Bulletin of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, in my regular column, “The Illustrator’s Perspective.” With SCBWI’s permission, I am posting it here to open it to [...]

The Elephant in the Room [Publishers Weekly]
Publishers, how ivory are thy towers? According to statistics—not to mention a quick glance around any trade show floor—pretty shockingly ivory, maybe along the lines of 98%. The number of publishing, editorial, art direction, sales and marketing professionals of color in our field is tiny, and that’s not good for [...]

Written by Love Isn’t Enough guest contributor Adrienne K.; originally published at Native Appropriations
Time to meet the 2010 Lego “Tribal Hunter,” the smiling dude at right. Note his “buckskin” outfit, beads, eagle feathers, warpaint, long hair, and bow and arrows. Pretty much every stereotypical marker that I can think of (see this post for more [...]

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It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitously cute kid pic. Unfortunately, we’ve drained our stockpile. You can help by sending photos of your gratuitously cute kids to team@loveisntenough.com.

written by Love Isn’t Enough guest contributor Latoya; originally published at Cocoamamas
This week, The New York Times published an op-ed referencing a famous report: The Negro Family: The Case forNational Action. In this 1965 report, Moynihan, the Asst. Sec’t of Labor, declares the deterioration of the black family as the main reason why blacks were [...]

Color-blind racial ideology linked to racism, both online and offline [University of Illinois News Bureau]
In a study that examined the associations between responses to racial theme party images on social networking sites and a color-blind racial ideology, Brendesha Tynes, a professor of educational psychology and of African American studies at Illinois, discovered that white students [...]

We were all sad to read Carmen’s goodbye last month. In launching Anti-Racist Parent, now Love Isn’t Enough, Carmen did a groundbreaking thing. She created a space where parents–ALL parents–could talk about race. In this space, race wasn’t whispered about. In this space, people refused to hide behind faux colorblindness and privilege. In this space, [...]

Hi all!  This is my first blog post on LIE, but many of you might “know” me from the commenting section as “Montclair Mommy”.  Just to warn you, I tend to be a little on the “wordy” side…but most regular readers already know that.  I am a former lawyer turned stay-at-home mom to a two-year-old [...]

Hello LIE readers! During the last few years of frequent commenting and very occasional contributing, I’ve grown to greatly value this space and the readers who come here. I’m honored to take on co-editing responsibilities here at Love Isn’t Enough.
I am the proud mother of a beautiful son (almost 3 years old) adopted from Ethiopia in 2008. [...]