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Black girls and women gathered at Columbia University last weekend to celebrate progress and build momentum for their community within the racial justice movement. “My heart is still shattered to rediscover how utterly invisible black girls are to everyone but one another,” said presenter Melissa Harris-Perry.
Tiana Zuniga wrote about beauty for the Girls Write Now anthology, “Voice to Voice: Girls Write Now’s 2015 Anthology,” because “definitions of beauty change, and that puts pressure on people to constantly change the way they look.”
Once black girls wind up in juvenile justice schools it’s hard to find the path to financial stability. Research has found that black girls are more likely to be punished for being “un-ladylike” and seen by teachers as “loud, defiant, and precocious.” The first in the series the Bias Price.
In this intro from “Hey, Shorty!” Joanne Smith recalls how the rape of an 8-year-old catalyzed the co-authors’ work to end violence against girls in public schools. The book offers a manual on applying Title IX, which prohibits gender discrimination in education.