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As a black girl I’m way more interested in how mothers, grandmothers and sisters think we should respond to the protests, anger and distrust in Ferguson, Mo., after the killing of Michael Brown.
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Working as a librarian in a county jail in Nassau County, N.Y., Marybeth Zeman saw the boys’ thirst for books, as well as problems with the juvenile justice system. In this excerpt from “Tales of a Jailhouse Librarian,” she meets the mother of a jailed boy.
Girls are far more likely to wind up being criminalized for “status offenses” that would be overlooked in adults, so let’s start right there and support a bill introduced in February. Too many of the girls we criminalize are traumatized victims who need help, not punishment.
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.