On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and multiple children at the bottom of a cliff along the California coastline. The crash was a murder-suicide: a white lesbian couple had adopted six Black children, with a paper-trail of child abuse and neglect that had been ignored by the child welfare system. We’re in conversation with Roxana Asgarian, a journalist whose focus on the story developed into an incredible book – a deeply reported indictment of a system that continues to fail America’s most vulnerable children, while upending the lives of their families. The book is called We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America.

This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is dancer, artist, choreographer, consultant and founder of Destiny Arts Center, Sarah Crowell.

Learn more about Destiny Arts Center: https://destinyarts.org/

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