foster care

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abused and neglected children are again sleeping overnight in the offices of Kansas foster care contractors because homes cannot be found for them quickly enough. According to the Department for Children and Families, more than 70 children have been kept overnight in the offices of the two nonprofit agencies providing foster […]

“If you have a mother, please kiss her,” is what Deborah Gregory ask. Author of the book series Cheetah Girls and Essence writer has been on the hunt to find out who her birth mother was. At the age of three Gregory was dropped at a foster home with little to no memory of her mother and the family she […]

A Nevada man is behind bars for shooting and killing his 14-year-old son for being gay according to Channel 3 News in Las Vegas. 14-year-old Giovanni Melton got shot inside his apartment when his father walked in on him and his boyfriend according Sonja James Giovanni’s foster mom on November 2, 2017. Friends and family […]

4/14/17- Most known for his stint on Last Comic Standing, Monroe Martin talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show just ahead of his show at the Addison Improv, about his experience on the show and growing up as a foster kid. Listen below.

A teenage mother bounced from home-to-home but remained focused on earning her college degree. She credits the support from a college diversity program for her success.

Comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish plays a game of  This or That with  The D.L. Hughely Show. She talks about Kolby Bryant’s retirement, female strippers pretending to be male strippers, growing up in foster care, and more! Plus she reveals details about her new movie with Key & Peele! Click on the audio player to hear more in this exclusive interview.  RELATED: Funny […]

A lawyer for the 16-year-old student at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina who was seen in a viral video being flipped over in her desk by a school resource officer, says the girl suffered injuries from the attack and lives in foster care.

November is recognized as National Adoption Awareness Month, and our own Jasmine Sanders has a special connection it. Jasmine was placed in foster care and later adopted. But it’s how she found out that will leave you wanting to know more about her inspiring story. Get “The D.L. Hughley Show” Delivered To You! Watch the […]

Davion Only is a 15-year-old orphan who desperately wants something many people take for granted: A family. “I’ll take anyone,” Davion said as he stood in the pulpit of St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida on a recent Sunday morning. “Old or young, dad or mom, black, white, purple. I don’t care. […]

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man and his sister have reunited 65 years after being separated in foster care thanks to a 7-year-old friend’s Facebook search. Clifford Boyson of Davenport met his sibling, Betty Billadeau, in person Saturday. Billadeau drove up from her home in Florissant, Mo., with her daughter and granddaughter for the reunion […]

If ever anyone has had the deck stacked against him from the start, Steve Pemberton would be the one. Taken from his mother at three years old and placed into foster care with a Polish surname, Pemberton moved from one family to another and endured physical and psychological abuse and quickly learned he had no […]

If ever anyone has had the deck stacked against him from the start, Steve Pemberton would be the one. Taken from his mother at three years old and placed into foster care with a Polish surname, Pemberton moved from one family to another and endured physical and psychological abuse and quickly learned he had no […]