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‘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.

Stop Invisible Lynchings in America
Dr. Ben ChavisNationalOp-EdOpinion

Stop Invisible Lynchings in America

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., President and CEO, National Newspaper Publishers AssociationApril 4, 2019

Disproportionately, young African male college students and others are being summarily expelled from college based solely on mere allegations of sexual misconduct violations of Title IX rules without any due process of law or findings of fact. College administrators are arbitrarily determining that these targeted students are guilty and expendable until their innocence is proven.