Schools are failing black girls who say they were sexually assaulted. I’ve seen it firsthand.

When it comes to faulty assumptions adults levy against black girls, there is perhaps no study more elucidating than Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality’s 2017 report Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood.

…The phenomenon, called “adultification,” can have a profound effect on the way black girls are treated, especially by law enforcement and in schools.