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Dorothy Roberts is Featured for Her Lifelong Work on Social Justice and Advocacy, Harvard Law Bulletin
Dorothy Roberts is featured in Harvard Law Bullentin for her work challenging systems of injustice, particularly in child welfare, repr
March 31, 2025
Dorothy Roberts Advances Reproductive Justice Through Penn Carey Law Course, Penn Today
Penn Carey Law highlights
January 13, 2025
Dorothy Roberts Teaches Reproductive Justice and Rights, Penn Carey Law
Dorothy Roberts teaches a course on reproductive justice and rights at Penn Carey Law, emphasizing a broader, justice-c
December 17, 2024
Dorothy Roberts Interviewed on Torn Apart, Her Groundbreaking Critique of the Child Welfare System, Current Affairs
In an interview with Current Affairs, Dorothy Roberts talks about her decades-long research into the child welfare system, the rac
December 13, 2024
Dorothy Roberts Awarded 2024 MacArthur Fellowship, The New York Times & Penn Today
Featured in
October 1, 2024
Dorothy Roberts is quoted on coerced home searches, Mother Jones
Mother Jones quotes Dorothy Roberts on coerced home searches.
February 21, 2024
Dorothy Roberts talks about the death of a 10-year-old Oʻahu girl, Hawaii Public Radio
Hawaii Public Radio features Dorothy Roberts talking about th
February 13, 2024
Dorothy Roberts addresses the question: Are Civil Rights Enough? Penn Today
Penn Today highlights research associate Dorothy Roberts addressing the question
January 31, 2024
Dorothy Roberts features in a podcast episode of Adoptees Crossing Lines, Podlink
"Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World", is an episode of Adoptees Crossing Lines, featuring Dorothy Roberts 
October 27, 2023
Studies by Dolores Albarracin, Courtney Boen, Angela Duckworth, John MacDonald, Eugenia South, Dorothy Roberts and Sarah Tishkoff are highlighted, Research at Penn
Research at Penn, 2023 Edition, features the research of Dolores Albarracin (pg 50),
July 20, 2023
Dorothy Roberts' two books on Black children are featured, Reveal
Reveal features two books authored by Dorothy Roberts, 'Shattered Bonds' and 'Killing the B
July 1, 2023
Dorothy Roberts is quoted on child welfare system for black families, AP News
In an article addressing the questions raised by a federal lawsuit on when social workers should separate families, AP News prominently features insig
May 31, 2023
Dorothy Roberts elected to the American Philosophical Society, Penn Today
Penn Today highlights Research Associate Dorothy Roberts being elected to the Am
May 22, 2023
Dorothy Roberts is a new member of the American Philosophical Society, American Philosophical Society
American Philosophical Society welcomes new members for 2023, and research associate Dorothy Roberts
May 15, 2023
Dorothy Robert’s book "Torn Apart" is named as the most mind-blowing nonfiction book of 2022, The Guardian
The Guardian features the historian Dr. Ibram X.
January 28, 2023
Dorothy Roberts recently published “Race,” a chapter in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, Penn Law
Penn Law highlights that Dorothy Roberts was interviewed by Nikole Hannah-Jo
January 26, 2023
Dorothy Roberts talks on dobbs decision’s impact on black women, pushkin
Pushkin reported that Dorothy Roberts discussed in a podcast, the disproportionate impact the Dobbs decision is anticipated to have on Black women.
January 24, 2023
Dorothy Roberts speaks about why "Black Families Matter" in the first episode of the Race and Regulation Podcast Series
The first episode of Race and Regulation, a 10-podcast series created by the Penn Program on Regulation features PSC Research Associate Dorothy Roberts.
November 9, 2022
Read an excerpt of Dorothy Robert’s new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families - And how Abolition Can Build a Safer World, in Mother Jones
PSC Assciate Dorothy Robert's new book analyzes the harmul impact of CPS on black families.
April 4, 2022
Dorothy E. Roberts was featured in Penn Law News for a chapter she authored in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Dorothy E.
March 23, 2022
Dorothy Roberts Interviewed in Youth Today about New Book
Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) did a Q&A for Youth Today making the case to abolish th
February 7, 2022
Dorothy Roberts featured on MSNBC News and in the 21st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice
Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) participated in the 21st annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 25, 2022
Dorothy Roberts Quoted in ABC News Article
Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in an ABC News<
December 1, 2021
Dorothy Roberts Featured in Panel Discussion on Anti-Racism Initiatives
During the 7th Annual University of Pennsylvania Martin Luther King Jr.
February 20, 2021
Dorothy Roberts and Julia Lynch featured on In These Times podcast
Dorothy E.
December 22, 2020
Dorothy Roberts featured in Penn Today about Public Safety Initiative
Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) was featured in a Penn Today
August 12, 2020
Dorothy Roberts featured in Marketplace Tech podcast
Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) was recently featured in the Marketplace Tech
August 12, 2020
Dorothy Roberts selected advisor on Public Safety Review and Outreach Initiative
Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) has been selected to be a presidential advisor of Penn's new
July 31, 2020
Dorothy Roberts discusses economic inequality on MSNBC
Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) appeared on MSNBC to discuss how to address economic inequality during the coronavirus pandemic with contributors Eddie Glaude and Ali Velshi.
March 28, 2020
Angela Lee Duckworth and Dorothy Roberts featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer
Angela Lee Duckworth (PSC Research Associate) and Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) featured in article on the stories of women in male-dominated fields.
March 6, 2020
Dorothy Roberts’ Book featured in Rewire.News
Killing the Black Body, a book by Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate), has been included in the list of books recommended to understand the history of Roe v Wade.
March 1, 2020
Book by Dorothy E. Roberts is Listed As Part of Zora Canon’s 100 Best Books by African American women
Killing the Black Body, a book by Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) is on the list of 100 greatest books ever written by African American women by The Zora
January 6, 2020
Dorothy Roberts on prison abolition constutionalism
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts has written the forward to the Harvard Law Review’s Supreme Court Issue.
December 18, 2019
PSC Associate Dorothy Roberts publishes Harvard Law Review on prison abolition constitutionalism
Dorothy E. Roberts has written the Foreword to Harvard Law Review’s Supreme Court Issue on the 2018 term.
November 7, 2019
’More And More Common’: Woman Indicted For Manslaughter After Her Fetus Was Shot
PSC Associate Dorothy Roberts was interviewed by NPR about the case of Marshae Jones, who was indicted on manslaugh
July 16, 2019
Law faculty react to SCOTUS ruling on jury selection in death penalty case
Dorothy Roberts, PSC Associate, and co-author penned responses to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the conviction and death sentence of Curtis Flowers based on racially motivated exclusions of potential juro
July 1, 2019
Dorothy Roberts’s book “Fatal Invention” tops New York Times “Antiracist Reading List”
PSC Associate Dorothy Roberts' 2011 book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press), tops a new
July 1, 2019
Commencement Speaker Dorothy Roberts Shares Thoughts on Her Work, Rutgers-Newark
PSC Associate Dorothy Roberts spoke at Rutgers University-Newark's commencement ceremony about her work on the intersection of rac
June 9, 2019
Dorothy Roberts, PSC Associate, argues against the decision upheld by the United States Supreme Court in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc.
Dorothy Roberts argues that Justice Clarence Thomas’s Box v. Planned Parenthood concurrence distorts history. Read more here
June 5, 2019
Eugenics is Still a Dangerous Idea
In an opinion piece for The Phila
May 2, 2019
Research, context, and community merge at Penn and Slavery Symposium
At the first Penn and Slavery Symposium, hosted by Dorothy Roberts and researchers, students, faculty, and community members talked about the University’s connections to slavery.
April 8, 2019
Rutgers University − Newark Announces 2019 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient
Dorothy E. Roberts has been named to be Rutgers University - Newark's 2019 commencement speaker.
February 21, 2019
Parenthood lost: How incarcerated parents are losing their children forever
PSC researcher, Dorothy Roberts, says the child-welfare system has a bias against poor people, especially mothers of color: “Instead of actually responding to the struggles of poor families … we’ve decided that it’s simpler to take their children away”
December 4, 2018
What’s the most influential book of the past 20 years?
"Killing The Black Body" by PSC Associate, Dorothy Roberts was listed on The Chronicle of Higher Education's list of influential books for the past 20 years.
November 30, 2018
Anita Hill, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Dorothy Roberts on inequality and sexual harassment
In a Wednesday evening campus event, UCLA’s Kimberlé Crenshaw, PSC researcher Dorothy Roberts, and Brandeis University’s Anita Hill looked at the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings, comparing them to the 1991 Clarence Thomas confirmation process.
October 15, 2018
Dorothy E. Roberts on how prison and foster care systems harm black mothers
In the new volume of the book “Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World,” PSC researcher Dorothy E.
October 5, 2018
The Breach—’We Don’t Heal from It.’
Dorothy Roberts was interviewed on Rewire.News about the effects of drug use during pregnancy leading to felonies.
September 28, 2018
What’s At Stake If Brett Kavanaugh Ascends To The Supreme Court
PSC Associate, Dorothy Roberts, was quoted in a Pacific Standard Magazine article about the Kavanaugh hearings and how his ascent to the suprem
September 13, 2018
Serena Williams is always going to carry that baby weight
Dorothy Roberts was quoted in an The Undefeated article about maternal mortality in black women.
August 26, 2018
Dorothy Roberts on "Information is the Best medicine"
Dorothy Roberts was interviewed by WURD Radio about family seperations and her book "Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare".
August 7, 2018
Overturning Roe: More than Abortion is at Stake
Dorothy Roberts spoke at a webinar organised by National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) on the effects of Roe vs Wade.
August 2, 2018
Why Progressives Should Embrace the Genetics of Education
PSC researcher, Dorothy Roberts, was mentioned in a New York Times article on her views on the correlation between genetics and intelligence.
July 30, 2018
Black Families Matter: How the Child Welfare System Punishes Poor Families of Colour
Dorothy Roberts co-authored an article in The Appeal about the effects of the child welfare system on poor black fa
July 20, 2018
Women Could Go to Jail for Miscarriages if ‘Roe’ Is Overturned
PSC researcher Dorothy Roberts was interviewed on MSNBC about overturning Roe vs. Wade.
July 20, 2018
U.S. Family Policy with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi
Dorothy Roberts was recently interviewed on MSNBC to give her analysis on family policies in the U.S. following the separation of parents and children at the U.S./ Mexico border.
July 18, 2018
Americans Love Families. American Policies Don’t.
PSC researcher, Dorothy Roberts, was mentioned in a New York Times article about family-friendly poliies in America.
June 26, 2018
Policing Poor Black Families
Dorothy Roberts was interviewed on The Dig podcast about rascism and poverty policing that pervades the child protection system.
June 7, 2018
High Mortality Rates of African American Women
PSC research associate Dorothy Roberts details the history of high mortality rates of African American women on the American Medical Association ethics podcast.
May 31, 2018
Black Motherhood in Academe
Dorothy Roberts was quoted in Inside Higher Ed discussing the issues with black motherhood and academia and its regulations.
May 31, 2018
Dorothy Roberts and Sarah Tishkoff are on the front page of the University News this week after speaking about the relationship between genetic classifications and race.
June 22, 2017
Dorothy Roberts spoke last week with the Penn Current about the anniversary of her groundbreaking book, "Killing of the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty."
Dorothy Roberts spoke last week with the Penn Current about the anniversary of her groundbreaking book, "Killing of the Black Body: Race, Reproductio
May 15, 2017
Dorothy Roberts is quoted in PBS New Hour segment report about racial ’care gap’ in medical treatment.
Dorothy Roberts is quoted in PBS New Hour segment report about racial 'care gap' in medical treatment.
August 5, 2016
Dorothy Roberts is quoted in Quartz article "African-American genes show how slavery and the Great Migration shaped the US".
Dorothy Roberts is quoted in Quartz article
June 2, 2016
Dorothy Roberts is featured in Penn News article about the use of race in human genetic research.
Dorothy Roberts is featured in Penn News article about the use of race in human genetic research.
February 4, 2016
Dorothy Roberts wrote an op-ed for TheHill.com about racial surveillance.
Dorothy Roberts wrote an op-ed for TheHill.com about racial surveillance.
January 4, 2016