A new report outlines the obstacles facing Black girls in America’s school systems – and demands that advocates, policymakers, and educators do better to foster safe spaces for Black girls to learn and grow.
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“Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected” was released yesterday by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies. Researchers for the study used data and personal interviews with young women of color in Boston and New York to expose how racism, sexism, and class issues erase Black girls’ experiences in the school system, limit their educational opportunities, and marginalize their needs, while pushing them into low-wage work, unemployment, and incarceration.