Dr. Stacy Patton, Assistant Professor School of Global Journalist & Communication, Morgan State University, is building a movement to change the culture of black family violence in the United States. Her goal is to provide parents, teachers, foster care providers, social workers, law enforcement officials, judges, adoption agencies, child advocates, ministers, and young people from all backgrounds with the tools to better understand the historical roots of corporal punishment against children. She is making the case for transforming this outdated vestige of slavery into healthier, more appropriate 21st-century parenting practices.