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My mum has bipolar. My dad was a recovering alcoholic.' - Leeds City Council chief exec Tom Riordan on why we need to open up about mental illness

Yorkshire Evening Post

Who the hell is Edgar?' - a viral Eurovision song about Edgar Allan Poe evokes a strange history of mediums and creative possession

The Conversation

Living in Adoption's Emotional Aftermath

The New Yorker

How Superman Became a Christ-Like Figure in American Culture

Literary Hub

How Horseback Riding Helped Barbara Stanwyck Rise Above Hollywood Misogyny

Literary Hub

How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

Literary Hub

Simone Biles becomes youngest living person to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Independent

Who is Ronnie Archer Morgan?

Homes & Antiques

The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday's Last Live Performance

Literary Hub (Billie Holliday)

The love that helped me beat hell of foster care

Paul Barber (actor)

When Lucy O'Flaherty took up shoemaking she didn't know it was part of her heritage

Fiona Blackwood

After I was taken off my birth parents, my foster carers became the family I needed

Kirsty Capes

The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson review – an elegant retelling of Shakespeare

Sarah Crown

America's Riches School Serves Low-Income Kids.

Propublica

Denmark says sorry to children of failed experiment

Inuit Greenlander

Alone in the world | The Spectator

Philip Hensher

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo

The Guardian

ABC's Patricia Karvelas on her experience of Parliament's toxic 'sexist' culture and how a childhood tragedy shaped her.

Natasha Johnson

An evening with your life your story

Amanda Knowles

Meet Karen Menzies, Australia's first Indigenous Matilda

Karen Menzies

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's last novel

The Conversation (Marquez)

Tasmania's connection to author Joseph Conrad remembered on anniversary of his death

Carol Raabus

‘The hardest thing is to forgive yourself’: actor Samantha Morton and writer Jenni Fagan on the trauma of growing up in care

The Guardian

‘Designed to tear families apart’: a shocking film exposes abuse and infanticide

The Guardian

Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century:

Vanity Fair

Prince Philip: A turbulent childhood stalked by exile, mental illness and death

Prince Philip

Every one of us has a different story': a historic portrait of care system success

The Guardian

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: class prejudices, the convict stain and a corpse-bride

The Conversation

Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey

Restless

I was a ward of the state. The horrors of the Parramatta Girls' Home were legendary

The Conversation (Parramatta)

Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child

BBC News

The people making a difference: the woman who created a community for fellow adult adoptees

The Guardian

Being homeless felt inevitable': after years in care, I was living in a tent. Who was to blame?

The Guardian

Angelina Jolie's casting game with Cambodian orphans sparks outrage

Harriet Alexander

Statues of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter erected at historical Aboriginal meeting place

ABC News (Australia)

I'll never know where I'm from': plight of the adopted children of Bangladesh's Birangona women

Thaslima Begum, Rosie Swash

The Orphanage review – terrific tale of an Afghan teen in trouble

Peter Bradshaw

FamilyConnect

Family

Indian orphans weave award-winning movie magic

Sujoy Dhar

Barrister and Chair of Independent Enquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Ivor Frank

Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption

The Guardian Long Read

I was taken into care at two years old – what really happened?

Kerry Hudson

Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo

The Guardian

"Malcolm Still Speaks." Ibram X. Kendi on George Breitman and the Enduring Legacy of Malcolm X.

Literary Hub (Malcolm X)

Alma's Not Normal review – this bleak, brilliant comedy is far from ordinary

Lucy Mangan

Smell like a woman, not a rose’: Chanel No. 5 100 years on, an iconic fragrance born from an orphanage

Gary Mortimer

Foster families who ignore race are participating in a pernicious form of racism

Derek Owusu

The real Lord of the Flies:

The Guardian

Ellie Simmonds on finding her birth mother: ‘During this journey I cried so much’ by Emine Saner

Ellie Simmonds

The Vatican's Children

60 Minutes

Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby

Lucy Wallis

Government expresses 'regret', will compensate for disappeared Yemenite children

The Times of Israel

The care leaver who made a number one album

BBC News

Meera Mistry

Meera Mistry

Kids Were Marched Everywhere. This was a Concentration Camp'

RolingStone

Former Cranbrook student says he was sexually abused at private Sydney boys' school

ABC News

Intelligent women are dangerous, no?’ Samantha Morton on sexism, success and survival

The Guardian

Simone Biles' scathing testimony was a warning about power and complicity

MSNBC

Care leaver Kerry Littleford: 'I want to give opportunities to people who haven’t had them'

The Guardian

Orphans in Kids' Movies: Let's Stop Going There

Jeff Alexander

Christian Bale unveils plans to build 12 foster homes in California

Christian Bale

Ward of the State; The Gap in Ella Fitzgerald's Life

Nina Bernstein

The West African children brought up by white foster families in the English countryside

Symeon Brown

‘I lived in a state of terror’: Patricia Cornwell on childhood trauma, her new novel and the search for Bigfoot

The Guardian - Patricia Cornwell

Hutchinson Heinemann signs Fagan's 'extraordinary' memoir in two-book deal

Jenni Fagan

Thousands of children adopted by Americans are without citizenship. Congress is unwilling to act

ABC News (USA)

Care Leavers Facing ‘Vile’ Assessments in Postcode Lottery when Becoming Mothers

Sophia Alexandra Hall

‘This book kept me alive’: Jenni Fagan on writing a memoir of her childhood in care

The Guardian

Care Experienced student behind new John Lewis Partnership brand: Made with Care

John Lewis

Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Home survivors mark 100 years as push continues for museum

ABC News

Seoul Searching

ABC News

Orphans Making It in the World

Noel Murray

Khelsi Price

Khelsi Price

Katherine Rundell's top 10 orphans

Katherine Rundell

Peter Mullan’s Orphans find a new ‘home’

Kenny Smith

Biden issues 'long overdue' apology for federal Indigenous boarding schools

PBS NewsHour

BBC Teach - History KS3 / GCSE: Small Axe - Alex Wheatle and the Brixton Uprising

Alex Wheatle

The One Percent compilation

Inspired Youth

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