50 Black Women Share What Living In America Feels Like In Three Words
MadameNoire, Natalie Petit-Frere
In this same era, enslaved women could not testify against their masters when they raped them because they’d been deemed inherently promiscuous and therefore incapable of sexual assault –a stigma that still follows us today. Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality conducted a study on the “adultification” of Black girls in 2017, finding Black girls were perceived to be “less innocent, and more adult-like than white girls of the same age, especially in the age range of 5-14.” The study also revealed that adults believe Black girls require less protection, nurturing, and support than white girls and have more knowledge of sex.
Model Imaan Hammam speaks up about adultification of black girls
The two-minute long video was created by the US’s Georgetown University Law Center for an initiative called “Gender Justice and Opportunity” that works...
More than Reduced Police Presence: Schools Must Commit to Implementing Restorative Justice.
Rebecca Epstein and Thalia Gonzalez
In this historic moment, cities across the nation are recognizing the damage caused by police presence in schools. From disproportionate action in response...
It is increasingly clear to all Americans what Black communities have known for generations: Systemic racism not only persists throughout our institutions, laws,...
Jamilia Blake, Ph.D., a psychologist and associate professor at Texas A&M University who co-authored the 2019 report “Listening to Black Women and Girls:...
Do No Harm: Reflecting on a Legacy of Pain for Black Women and Girls in the United States
Isiuwa Omoigui
As the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality reported in 2017, “compared to white girls of the same age (i.e. age range of five to 14), adults perceive that black girls need less protection, know more about adult topics, and know more about sex.” Yet they are seen as too childlike and promiscuous to exercise reproductive autonomy over their bodies.
Why the approval of the JCPS Females of Color STEAM Academy brought me to tears
Renee Murphy
In a 2017 research article from the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law, “Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls Childhood,”...