Six years ago, CaShawn Thompson, gifted us with a viral hashtag that would become a mantra for Black women and girls everywhere: #BlackGirlsAreMagic. Thompson began using it for empowerment and to highlight our accomplishments. It has since been seen on t-shirts and...
A 2017 study by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality told many of us what we already knew: Black girls are seen as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers. While this phenomenon, called adultification, can be observed across all age...
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