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Black Girls Code and GoldieBlox Launch Program to Inspire Interest in Computer Tech 
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Black Girls Code and GoldieBlox Launch Program to Inspire Interest in Computer Tech 

Nusaybah Al-Mansur, Contributing WriterMarch 6, 2025

As AI and technology continue to reshape our world, alarming disparities remain in gender and racial representation – Black women hold 2% of technology roles and women earn only 18% of new computer science degrees. Dedicated to changing this, Black Girls Code, in partnership with GoldieBlox, has launched a new season of Code Along Jr., an initiative designed to empower the next generation of technologists with the skills and confidence needed to thrive in a field where Black women have long been underrepresented.  

Are We Our Sister’s Keeper?
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Are We Our Sister’s Keeper?

October 21, 2021

There can be no worse feeling for a parent to not know where their child is.  Though it was over thirty years ago the terrifying feeling I felt has never left me.  I was in downtown Los Angeles at the garment district with my daughter and three other children who I was babysitting and for what seemed like a brief moment, I was distracted and momentarily lost sight of my daughter.

‘Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools’
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‘Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools’

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentNovember 15, 2019

Black girls, and other girls of color, experience discriminatory, disparate, punitive, and unfair treatment in school, including suspensions, expulsions, referrals to law enforcement and arrests on school campuses, at rates that exceed the public school population in aggregate — and far exceed those experienced by their white female peers.

Is More Attention Finally Being Given to Missing Black Girls?
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Is More Attention Finally Being Given to Missing Black Girls?

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentApril 26, 2019

“…while this nation espouses the valuing of children in general, this does not appear to be the reality as evidenced by the failure to act in the face of the onslaught of mass school shootings from Sandy Hook to Stoneman Douglas where the majority of those killed were middle class white youth,” said Dr. Ronnie A. Dunn, an interim chief diversity and inclusion officer and associate professor of urban studies at Cleveland State University.

Chipotle Employee was Told, ‘Black Girls Always Have an Attitude’ Suit Alleges
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Chipotle Employee was Told, ‘Black Girls Always Have an Attitude’ Suit Alleges

BILL HETHERMAN City News ServiceNovember 30, 2017

Sheqweshu Clark, who is black, alleges that she was terminated in January 2016 for complaining that her Latino co-workers were given preferential treatment by management and that a supervisor told her after she spoke out that “black girls always have an attitude.” But Chipotle maintains Clark lost her job at the El Segundo store for allowing a worker to be on duty an entire shift while drunk, endangering both fellow employees as well as the public.

Black Girls and Sex Trafficking in Los Angeles!
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Black Girls and Sex Trafficking in Los Angeles!

September 8, 2016

Why should this matter to you? Sex trafficking is sexual slavery and disproportionately affects young Black girls in America. Family members, acquaintances, pimps, employers, smugglers, and strangers traffic children. Pimping or sex trafficking, is a multi-billion-dollar industry and predators are likely to make anywhere from $150,000 to $300,000 each year selling and exploiting the bodies of Black teenage girls. According to the U.S. Justice Department and National Center for Missing and Exploited children, the average pimp has four to six girls and many are ages 13-14. These young ladies are, raped, beaten, branded, contract sexually transmitted diseases within six months