Stacey Patton

Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist, author, child advocate and an assistant professor of multimedia journalism at Morgan State University. Her writings on issues surrounding higher education, child welfare, and race have appeared in the Washington Post, Al Jazeera, BBC News, The Root, and DAME Magazine. She is also the author of That Mean Old Yesterday and the creator of the anti–corporal punishment online portal Spare the Kids.

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