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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.
Expressed in an essay published in XO Jane this week, the article has angered many women of color and those who practice yoga, who call the story racist, discriminatory against larger women and further fueling the lack of diversity in yoga.
Very few of the maternity wards that have won a seal of approval for providing breastfeeding support are located in communities with a significant population of African Americans, a Women’s eNews analysis finds.
The experience of other groups who are consistently victims of abuse–such as women and the gay community–can help clarify why many African Americans are upset over this slaying. And why we need to address systemic racism.
The term has served as a legal code for racism. Today, historian Doris Weatherford writes that state lawmakers have also long imposed legal restrictions on U.S. women. Now it’s the framework for the shrinkage of access to reproductive health care and medical privacy.
Before immigrating to the U.S. in hopes of a better life, Oksana Marafioti recalls the racism she faced in the Soviet Union for being a Roma in this excerpt from her book “American Gypsy.”
The breastfeeding movement needs a clear plan for diversity, not just a do-good mentality, says Kimberly Seals Allers. The last in a two-part series.
African American women have become an increasingly important voting block, says Cindy Hooper in her book “Conflict.” In this excerpt, she examines how black women started to gain this importance in politics.
LGBT youth of color may have to contend with different factors when dealing with their sexuality and coming out, say Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill in the book “LGBT Youth in America’s Schools.” In this excerpt, they explore why and how.
Nekose Wills offers an iconoclastic account of being a black woman at Penn State, the football powerhouse hit by child sex-abuse allegations. She can’t share the widespread lament for a community that never made her feel welcome or even safe.