black girls
The event, which happened last month, was aimed at empowering our youth to read and see themselves as heroes.
Oakland Public Schools announced plans to launch a program focused on helping Black girls succeed. The school district pioneered a similar program for at-risk Black boys in 2010.
In what has become known as "The Talk," which parents give Black boys about police encounters, I also teach my daughter to respect authority, but that she should never allow her rights to be violated.
Iron Man fans are in for a twist.
According to author Monique Morris, Black girls make up 16 percent of American school students, but account for over 33 percent of school arrests.
It's the first out of 430 registered caucuses that will focus solely on the issues that we as African-American women face.
I want my future daughter to love the skin she's in.
Black female students are facing two huge institutional challenges as racism and sexism converge in a way that mean stiffer punishments for them. A new…