Author: Dr. Stacey Patton

Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist, author, historian and nationally recognized child advocate whose research focuses on the intersections of race and parenting in American life, child welfare issues, education, corporal punishment in homes and schools, and the foster care and school-to-prison pipelines. Her writings on race, culture, higher education, and child welfare issues have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC News, Al Jazeera, TheRoot.com, NewsOne, Madame Noire, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She has appeared on ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and Democracy Now. Dr. Patton is the author of That Mean Old Yesterday, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America, and the forthcoming books, Strung Up: The Lynching of Black Children in Jim Crow America, and Not My Cat, a children's story. She is also the creator of a forthcoming 3-D medical animation and child abuse prevention app called "When You Hit Me."