black girls
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Study Finds Black Children 6 Times More Likely to be Fatally Shot by Police
In news that is as heartbreaking as it is predictable, a study has found that over the last 16 years, Black kids were six times more likely to be fatally shot by police than white children. CNN reports that the study found that from 2006 to 2018, 140 children were killed as a result of…
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Teacher Simply Acknowledging Black Lives Matter in Lesson Prompts Prolonged, Racist Outrage in Wisconsin Town
White people have continually proven that their response to being asked to not be racist is to simply be more racist. A small town in Wisconsin has been a perfect example of this, as multiple racist incidents have occurred after a teacher mentioned Black Lives Matter in a lesson about racism. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports…
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Yara Shahidi, Lyric Ross, Shahadi Wright Joseph and More to Join the Uniquely You Summit for Girls
Black girls are so much more than magical; they are forward-thinking, powerful, and precious. The decade-old platform known as the Uniquely You Summit (UYS) has long recognized this. “For the last 10 years, UYS has unapologetically centered Black girls,” reads a release provided to The Glow Up. “Doing the work whether people were paying attention…
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The Safe Negro Guide to Lovecraft Country: 'Jig-a-Bobo'
Multi-orgasmic sex while molting your white-woman skin? Running from creepy twin pickaninny caricatures? Saved from gunfire by a concrete shoggoth? It must be Episode 8 of HBO’s Lovecraft Country! Last Sunday was a welcome respite from watching The Masque of the Red Death play out in real-time on our nightly news, but you want to…
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Cuties: Maïmouna Doucouré Will Not Be Erased in the Controversy Obscuring Her Coming-of-Age Story
In Cuties (Mignonnes), the lead character Amy (Fathia Youssouf) is on a journey to find herself while navigating both her traditional family and the rebellious girl group she joins. In the process, the 11-year-old girl begins to clarify what femininity, childhood and the exploration of her own transforming body mean to her. Amy eventually finds…
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Michigan Appeals Court Grants Release of Black Girl Who Was Detained After Not Doing Online Homework
A 15-year-old Black girl who was being detained in a juvenile facility in Detroit for failing to complete online schoolwork has been granted release by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The teenage girl in question, referred to as Grace to protect her privacy, had been held in detention at the Children’s Village center for 78…
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Google's Online Marketing Tool Identified 'Black Girls' Searches With Porn: Report
The world of online marketing turns on keywords and with Search Engine Optimization of vital concern to business owners and advertisers alike, tools like Google’s Keyword Planner can be essential to identifying what keywords to buy ads near in Google search results. But until recently, when advertisers typed in “Black Girls,” “Latina girls” (we know,…
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The Story of a Black Teenage Girl Incarcerated for Not Doing Her Online Schoolwork Shows Us Just How Big Our Criminal Justice Problem Is
As activists have sustained calls for a radical transformation of our nation’s criminal justice system over the last several weeks, many among us are reimagining what necessary interventions ought to look like, absent the police. How can we resolve domestic issues, for instance, without having to call 911? One idea that’s been frequently tossed around…
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Thandie Newton Says the Film Business Doesn't Care 'If You're a Young Black Girl and You Get Raped'
Thandie Newton has a history of being quite outspoken about issues that matter to her. But in her most recent interview, she got quite vulnerable about her own trauma. In a feature interview with Vulture, the Emmy-winning Westworld actress did not hold back about the toxic culture in Hollywood, especially as it pertains to its exploitation…
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With Selah and the Spades, Tayarisha Poe Is Capturing the 'Volatility of Being Alive'
“They always try to break you down when you’re 17.” – Selah Summers text Written and directed by Tayarisha Poe, Selah and the Spades has been on my anticipated list for a while. In fact, though I didn’t get to attend that year, it made the top of my 2019 Sundance Film Festival black-ass experience…