Posts Tagged ‘black youth’
School to Prison Pipeline: The Criminalization of Black Female Students
When it comes to the school-to-prison pipeline in America, a thought-provoking book by a prominent U.S. author and justice advocate sheds startling insights into an often-overlooked segment of our broken justice system – the discrimination against black girls. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris spotlights a group that is…
Read MoreAddressing the School to Prison Pipeline: Why Education is the Liberation of Black Youth
By Jonathan Stith There is a war going on outside — that no Black youth is safe from. Most recently, we’ve seen this war played out through the extrajudicial killings of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice and other victims of state-sanctioned violence. But we also know it through the devastation of mass incarceration under…
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