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New York Times: ‘More Than Just Tragic’: Ma’Khia Bryant and the Burden of Black Girlhood

Published April 26, 2021

To unpack these issues, In Her Words caught up with Dr. Jamilia Blake, a co-author of the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality report and a psychology professor at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Monique Morris, president and chief executive of Grantmakers for Girls of Color and author of the book “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School.”

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