Dr. Stacey Patton

Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist, child advocate, and college professor.  Her writing on issues of race, child welfare, education, politics and culture has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, The Chronicle of Higher Education, NewsOne, and TheGrio, and other outlets.  She has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, ABC News, Democracy Now, and Fox News.  She is the author of That Mean Old Yesterday — A Memoir, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America, and the forthcoming, Strung Up: The Lynching of Black Children in Jim Crow America.  Dr. Patton teaches digital journalism in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University and is a research associate at Morgan State University.