Toni Morrison’s Radical Model of Care for Black Single Mothers

In a 1989 interiew with Time reporter Bonnie Angelo, the late Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison was asked about her thoughts on “improving the present-day racial climate.” Morrison, in her eloquent and pointed way, navigates through a series of racially biased questions dressed up as “serious journalism.” Eventually, after a number of inquiries about “Black on Black crime” and the high number of Black high school drop outs, the journalist lands on a question about the “depressingly large number of single-parent households” and the crisis…