In 2018, as a graduate student, Assistant Professor Misha Inniss-Thompson worked alongside four Black girls and colleagues at Vanderbilt University to co-found the Black Girl Magic Crew, an afterschool program for Black adolescent ...
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Feb 12, 2024
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Several years ago, when Marketa Burnett asked the young Black girls who were part of her research study to talk about what it meant first to be a girl and second a Black girl, they told her the two were indistinguishable.
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Feb 12, 2024
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Children as young as five can display more positive associations with white children over Black children on measures of unconscious bias, and new research from York University finds this can be true even when taking into ...
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Feb 2, 2023
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Black youth who attend racially segregated schools are more likely to have behavior problems and to drink alcohol than Black youth in less segregated schools, according to a UC San Francisco study published in Pediatrics.
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Apr 18, 2022
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Being a Black female might involve navigating two extremes: too little attention when you're older, and too much of the wrong kind of attention when you're young.
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Jan 27, 2022
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A recent study, co-authored by a University of Notre Dame professor, shows how educators' racial and gender biases affect their assessments of students' academic skills based on noncognitive skills, which include behavior, ...
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Feb 11, 2020
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Young black males feel less safe when they go to neighborhoods with a larger white population than occurs in areas they normally visit, a new study suggests.
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Aug 13, 2018
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Girls who develop early are better adjusted when their friends are on a similar timeframe for puberty and of the same race, a new study shows.
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Jul 31, 2017
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Black girls are disproportionately punished in American schools - an "overlooked crisis" that is populating the school-to-prison pipeline at rising rates, two education scholars argue in a new paper.
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Feb 16, 2017
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When schools put zero tolerance policies into effect, such rules were intended to address problems such as violence, weapons, drugs or other illegal activities. Consequently, "zero tolerance" policies have been used to punish ...
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Jan 10, 2017
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