Foster Care

Foster Care (1995)
Duration: 00:28:20

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Themes: Education and Families | Urban Challenges | Motor City and Motown |

Guests: Donald Phillips, Ernest Turner, Deirdre Bellomo, John Krapohl
Host : Darryl Wood [bio]Darryl Wood hosted the show for ten years from 1988 to 1998 under the title American Black Journal. His shows focused on the skills and talents of many of the nation's leading African-American business people.

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Producer : Tony Mottley


Summary: This show explores reasons black children are in foster care, and adoption of black children by white families.
Guests include Donald Phillips, community outreach coordinator for Lutheran Social Services of Michigan's Detroit foster care program; Reverend Ernest Turner, a foster parent; Deirdre Bellomo the white mother of an adopted African American child; and John Krapohl, an African American who was adopted by a white family.